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LONDON--A jetliner bound for Northern Ireland with 126 people aboard slammed into a highway embankment in central England yesterday while trying to make an emergency landing, authorities said. At least 32 people were reported killed, and another 76 injured...
...aircraft was trying to land at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, about 100 miles north of London, when it hit an embankment beside the highway, the airline said. The plane broke apart on impact...
Police in the county of Derbyshire reported several bodies scattered on each side of the highway. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported 10 dead. The local fire brigade and police reported some fatalities but did not give figures...
...said there were "considerable injuries," but he said no cars were known to have been hit as the plane thundered alongside the M1, England's main north-south highway. The highway remained partly open to traffic, he said...
...over Lockerbie. Said George Gilston, who was walking his dog when the jet fell out of the sky: "I heard a noise like thunder, and then I saw the outline of a plane dropping, nose down, straight into the ground." Peter O'Brien was driving by on the A74 highway. "The whole sky lit up as though it was daylight," he said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled truck driver John McGuinness: "I'm sure the plane...