1989 In Aviation

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This is a list of Aviation -related events from 1989 :

EVENTS

January

January 4 - US Navy F-14 Tomcat s shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 s

January 8 - a British Midland Boeing 737 -400 crashes on the M1 Motorway near Kegworth , killing 32 people.

February

February 8 - a misunderstanding between the crew of a Boeing 707 and Air Traffic Control leads to a crash on Pico Alto mountain on the Azores

February 24 - a piece of fuselage detaches from a United Airlines Flight 811 over Hawaii . 9 people are sucked to their deaths.

March

March 22 - an Antonov An-225 sets a total of 106 world and class records during a 3 hour 30 minute flight carrying a '' Buran '' orbiter. Its total weight at take-off was 508,200 kg (1,129,370 lb)

April

April 12 - a British Airways Concorde loses a large piece of its rudder on a flight between Christchurch and Sydney

June

June 7 - a Suriname DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname , killing 168.

June 8 - a Soviet Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 suffers a Birdstrike during a display at the Paris Air Show . Pilot Anatoli Kvochur manages to prevent the plane from injuring anyone, and saves himself by ejecting at only 400 feet.

July

July 4 - Crash of an unmanned MiG-23 in Kortrijk , Belgium . The pilot had believed he was experiencing an engine failure shortly after take-off from the Soviet airbase near Kolobzreg, Poland and had ejected, while the aircraft continued on autopilot for 900 km, until running out of fuel. One 18-year-old man on the ground was killed in the crash. Incident summary at Eastern Wings

July 16 - European air traffic is halted due to industrial action by French air traffic controllers.

July 19 - A United Airlines DC-10 crashes on landing following a decompression in the number 2 engine. 111 people were killed.

August

August 5 - Piedmont is merged into USAir .

August 18 - a Qantas Boeing 747 , the ''Spirit of Australia'', flies non-stop from London to Sydney , setting a world record for a four engine jet, after having flown 11,000 miles in 20 hours.

August 22 - Alexander Yakovlev dies, aged 84

September

September 3 - a Varig Boeing 737 crashes in Brazil killing 53 passengers. The pilots had not noticed an autopilot malfunction because they were listening to a football match.

September 8 - a Chartered Partnair Flight crashes into the sea off the coast of Denmark killing 55 people.

September 20 - a USAir Boeing 737 aborts a takeoff in New York and slides into the East River . Two people are killed.

September 20 - a UTA DC-10 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Niger . 117 passengers are killed.

November

November 12 - California Polytechnic State University flies the first Human Powered Helicopter

November 21 - a British Airways Boeing 747 narrowly misses crashing into the Penta hotel near Heathrow Airport

FIRST FLIGHTS

January

January 11 - AASI Jetcruzer 450

March

March 19 - V-22 Osprey

April

April 30 - SOCATA Omega

May

May 28 - AIDC Ching-Kuo

July

July 17 - B-2 Spirit

October

October 7 - Enstrom 480

December

December 26 - NAMC N-5

ENTERED SERVICE

February 9 - Boeing 747-400 with Northwest Airlines

October 27 - ATR-72 with Kar Air

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