A father and son from Derry were among those remembered at a memorial service held today to mark the 25th anniversary of the Kegworth air disaster.
Bernard and Brian Ferguson, from the Tamnaherin area, were among the 47 people killed when a Belfast-bound British Midland flight crashed on the M1 in Leicestershire on 8 January 1989. Amazingly, 47 people survived.
Flowers were laid at a memorial site in Kegworth cemetery by Lesley Pendleton who has been clerk of the village’s parish council since before the accident and who has laid flowers on every anniversary.
The flower-laying was followed by a prayer service in St Francis Church in the village.
The Boeing 737 developed a problem in its left engine shortly after it took off from London’s Heathrow Airport but the pilots mistakenly believed the fault was in the right engine.
They shut down the wrong engine leading to the crash just yards from the runway of East Midlands Airport where it was attempting an emergency landing.
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