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This is the story of British midland flight 92, on the 8th of january 1989, a british midlands boeing 737, was to fly from heathrow to belfast international airport with 126 people on board. The plane took off at 7:52 pm and flight 92 first climbed to 6000 feet, then it was cleared up to 12,000 feet and then it was cleared up to its final cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The 737 climbed to 35,000 feet as the plane flew towards the city of trent. At 8:05 pm as the plane climbed through 28,300 feet the crew felt a bit of vibration and they smelled smoke. In the cockpit they could hear a sort of rattling. But so far the instruments did not show any signs of a fire.
The captain disengaged the autopilot and took control of the plane, he scanned the instruments to see if he could discern what was wrong, he couldn't. He felt that the smoke was coming into the cockpit from the cabin, the captain at this point fell back on his knowledge of the 737. According to the captain the 737’s cabin was pressurized with air from the right hand engine or engine number two. The right hand engine must be the one in trouble. The first officer had been monitoring the instruments and when asked by the captain about which engine was in trouble the first officer said “ its the le-” he stopped mid sentence and said “it's the right one”, the pilots disengaged the autothrottle and pulled engine number two to idle.
This seemed to solve their problems, the vibration eased up and it seemed like the worst of the flight was behind them. After they throttled engine number 2 back they got in contact with london ATC, ATC wanted to know where the crew wanted to divert to. East midlands airport was quite close by and they would be able to get to the airport quite quickly. They contacted british midlands employees at east midlands and they advised the crew to divert to east midlands and with that their minds were made.
As the plane made its way back it was experiencing vibrations higher than usual but all in all the plane seemed to be in okay shape. But in the cabin the passengers could hear thuds and rumblings and they smelled more smoke. The captain at this point made an announcement to the passengers, he told them that they were having issues with the right hand engine and that they'd be landing soon, this confused some of the passengers, they could see flames on the left hand engine.
London ATC handed flight 92 over to Manchester ATC, as the plane approached east midlands. The captinan flew the plane and the first officer handled the radios, both pilots were engrossed in their tasks as both worked to get the 737 back on the ground. The captain wanted to review their situation.he started to say “Now what indications did we actually get? Just rapid vibrations in the aeroplane?” but his inquiry was cut short by ATC giving them a new heading. By the time the 737 was 15 nm from the runway the single engine approach checklist had been completed.
When it was 13 nms away the plane was lining up with runway 27, As flight 92 made that turn they added a bit of power to the left hand engine and the vibrations returned. Fight 92 was asked to descend to 2000 feet. The pilots brought out the flaps first to 2 degrees and then 5 degrees. They also extended the landing gear. The plane descended towards runway 27. When they were 2.4 nm from the runway the plane was at 900 feet and descending. Suddenly there