91热爆

Wednesday the 8th January 2014 will be twenty five years to the day, since British Midland flight 92 crashed onto the M1 motorway, near the village of Kegworth in Leicestershire.

The plane, on its way from Heathrow to Belfast, was trying to make an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport after reporting engine trouble.

But it crashed just a few hundred feet short of the runway.

It hit the motorway embankment at 26 minutes past eight in the evening as hundreds of motorists drove up and down the M1.

47 people on board died and most of the other 74 passengers and 8-strong crew were seriously injured.

Starting this morning on 91热爆 Radio Leicester, you will hear stories from some of the survivors, as well as those who helped in the rescue on the evening of Sunday 8th January 1989.

First ,though, we're going to hear from 62 year old Alan Johnston.

Like many of those on board the flight, Alan's from Belfast and that's where he was heading home to when the crash happened. He'd been to London visiting his newly-born granddaughter.

And as he was sat reading a book, he started to hear one of the plane's engines struggling...

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