{"id":10783386,"date":"2026-08-09T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=10783386"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:56:45","slug":"kegworth-air-disaster-1989-british-midland-737-wrong-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/kegworth-air-disaster-1989-british-midland-737-wrong-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kegworth: The Crew Shut Down the Good Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>On a freezing January evening in 1989, a nearly new Boeing 737 fell out of the sky less than a kilometre short of the runway and struck the embankment of the M1 motorway. Forty-seven of the 126 people on board died. The cruel twist: the engine that had failed was still running when the aircraft hit the ground. The engine the pilots had shut down was working perfectly.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Kegworth air disaster is among the most closely studied tragedies in aviation &mdash; not because of a freak mechanical fault, but because of how a small, understandable human error cascaded into catastrophe. Its lessons reshaped how airliners are flown, briefed and built.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Kurzinfo<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Flug:<\/strong> British Midland 92, London Heathrow to Belfast<\/li><li><strong>Flugzeug:<\/strong> Boeing 737-400, registration G-OBME<\/li><li><strong>Datum:<\/strong> January 8, 1989<\/li><li><strong>Ursache:<\/strong> fan-blade failure in the left engine; crew shut down the healthy right engine<\/li><li><strong>Verluste:<\/strong> 47 of 126 aboard died; 74 seriously injured<\/li><li><strong>Verm\u00e4chtnis:<\/strong> reforms to training, crew communication and cabin safety<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vIfC3sMf_a8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A fan blade, then confusion<\/h2><p>Shortly after climbing away from Heathrow, a fan blade fractured in the left (No. 1) engine. The cockpit filled with the smell of burning and the cabin with smoke, drawn in through the air-conditioning. The pilots had recently converted to the new 737-400; on the older 737s they knew best, the flight deck was ventilated from the right side, and they wrongly concluded the right engine was the culprit.<\/p>\r\n<p>When they throttled the right engine back, the vibration and the smell eased &mdash; a coincidence that seemed to confirm the diagnosis. They shut the healthy right engine down.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1696036818  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/british-midland-737-400-g-obme-kegworth.jpg\" alt=\"British Midland Boeing 737-400 G-OBME\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">G-OBME, the actual accident aircraft, photographed at Heathrow in November 1988 &mdash; two months before the crash. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The message that never reached the cockpit<\/h2><p>Captain Kevin Hunt told the passengers that the right engine was the problem. But passengers seated on the left, and three cabin crew at the rear, could see the left engine spitting sparks and flame. That vital observation never reached the flight deck; the cabin crew assumed the pilots already knew which engine had failed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;We were thinking: &lsquo;Why is he doing that?&rsquo; &mdash; because we saw flames coming out of the left engine.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>A surviving passenger<\/strong> &mdash; recalling the moment, Kegworth<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dbkhUG-bkxk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The last two minutes<\/h2><p>On final approach to East Midlands Airport, the crew advanced the damaged left engine to complete the landing. It surged, lost power and caught fire. With the good engine already shut down, there was no thrust left to arrest the descent. The 737 came down on the wooded embankment between the M1 and the A453, breaking apart short of the runway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1976714031  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/cfm56-3-turbofan-engine-737.jpg\" alt=\"A CFM56-3 turbofan engine\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A CFM56-3 turbofan, the engine family fitted to the 737-400. A fractured fan blade in the left engine began the chain of events. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;It must be stated that had some initiative been taken by one or more of the cabin crew who had seen the distress of the left engine, this accident could have been prevented.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Air Accidents Investigation Branch<\/strong> &mdash; from the official report<\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Kegworth changed<\/h2><p>The AAIB traced the blade failure to metal fatigue in the uprated CFM56-3C engine, which had not been fully flight-tested at its higher thrust setting. But the decisive factor was human: the wrong-engine shutdown. The disaster drove changes that airline passengers still benefit from &mdash; revised procedures and training for the 737-400, far better communication between cabin crew and the flight deck, modifications to the engine&rsquo;s fan blades, and CAA-funded research that transformed the brace position and the crashworthiness of seats and cabins.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZYb3aM9qf4\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>Kegworth is remembered less for the blade that broke than for the good engine that was silenced &mdash; and for how much safer flying became because of the lessons pulled from the wreckage on the motorway.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px\">Sources: Air Accidents Investigation Branch report; BBC; AeroTime; Wikipedia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/fedex-flight-705-hijacking-dc-10-1994\/\">Die FedEx-Crew, die mit einer DC-10 \u00fcberlebte<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/taca-flight-110-levee-landing-1988\/\">Beide Motoren ausgefallen, er landete auf einem Deich.<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/ryan-xv-5-vertifan-lift-fan-vtol\/\">Der Jet mit riesigen, in den Fl\u00fcgeln versteckten Ventilatoren<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a freezing January evening in 1989, a nearly new Boeing 737 fell out of the sky less than a kilometre short of the runway and struck the embankment of the M1 motorway. Forty-seven of the 126 people on board died. The cruel twist: the engine that had failed was still running when the aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":10782717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10783386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-world","category-history-and-legends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kegworth Air Disaster: The Wrong Engine Shutdown<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1989 the crew of British Midland Flight 92 shut down the good engine after a fan blade failed. 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