Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The burnt fuselage of the British Airtours aircraft at Manchester Airport. The fire took hold within seconds. - AP Photo On the ...

A disaster at Manchester Airport that claimed 55 lives was a "pivotal moment in aviation safety", an expert has said. A passenger jet bound for Corfu caught fire on the runway on 22 August 1985, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aftermath: Investigators at the stricken Boeing 737 aircraft at Manchester airport on 22 August 1985 (Air Accidents Investigation ...

A firefighter who helped battle the blaze which took 55 lives in the Manchester Air Disaster has told his story of that tragic day. Today will mark 30 years since the tragedy when the fire swept into ...

It was the tragedy that took place 'within a minute' and changed air travel forever. Forty years ago, on August 22, 1985, 53 passengers and two crew members died when the Corfu-bound Boeing 737 caught ...

Fifty-five people died in the 1985 fire, unable to escape the smoke. This is what happened, minute by minute, and what lessons were learnt Greg Dickinson is an award-winning travel writer and co-host ...