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L-1011 incident in Leeds

27 May 1985 · Beyond the runway of Leeds Bradford Airport, Leeds (United Kingdom)

Lockheed L-1011 TriStar · Crew errors, bad weather conditions

From Palma de Mallorca (Spain) to Leeds Bradford, Leeds (United Kingdom)

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Event

Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Occurrence
Event fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
412
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
0
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Airline

Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

Flight
KT101
Aircraft type
Lockheed L-1011
Category
Airplane · from aircraft type
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
G-BBAI
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From Palma de Mallorca (Spain)To Leeds Bradford, Leeds (United Kingdom)

Approximate · Estimated position: Leeds, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The L-1011 incident in Leeds was an aviation incident that occurred on 27 May 1985. A Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 passenger airliner of a now-defunct British airline was operating flight KT 101 on the Palma de Mallorca–Leeds service, but during landing at Leeds Bradford Airport in Leeds the runway was slippery as a result of earlier rain and the pilots did not manage to brake in time and the aircraft rolled off beyond its end. Of the 412 people on board (398 passengers and 14 crew members), no one was killed or injured.

So far, the accident of Flight 101 remains the most serious incident at Leeds Bradford Airport. It is also the last accident at this airport.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article “Інцидент з L-1011 у Лідсі” (revision 46001119, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Ukrainian Wikipedia article: Інцидент з L-1011 у Лідсі
Article
Інцидент з L-1011 у Лідсі
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
46001119 · 2025-08-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
uk Wikipedia article "Інцидент з L-1011 у Лідсі" (page 4613545, revision 46001119), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
airline flight number in the infobox
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.