Manchester airport tragedy: 40 years on, how the aviation world learned from the disaster

“In the airport’s Garden of Remembrance, an epitaph on the permanent memorial to the victims reads, “their lives were not lost in vain.” Those words reflect the fact that every passenger who passes through Manchester airport – and any other airport around the world – is safer, today, as a result of the lessons learned from that day’s tragic events.”

55 passengers and crew lost their lives aboard a British Airtours plane in a disaster that led to major improvements in air safety