British Airtours Flight 28M, a Boeing 737–236 series 1, G-BGJL, named "River Orrin", carrying 131 passengers and 6 crew on a charter flight to Corfu International Airport in Greece, caught fire before take-off at Manchester International Airport, England on 22 August 1985 with the loss of 55 lives. Picture Source: Google At 0612 hrs , G-BGJL, carrying 131 passengers and 6 crew on a charter flight to Corfu, began its take-off from runway 24 at Manchester with the co-pilot handling. About thirty-six seconds later, as the airspeed passed 125 knots, the left engine suffered an uncontained failure, which punctured a wing fuel tank access panel. Fuel leaking from the wing ignited and burnt as a large plume of fire trailing directly behind the engine. The crew heard a 'thud', and believing that they had suffered a tyre-burst or bird-strike, abandoned the take-off immediately, intending to clear the runway to the right. They had no indication of fire unt...