1977 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1977:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 June 1.5 July 1.6 August 1.7 September 1.8 October 1.9 November 1.10 December 2 First flights 2.1 January 2.2 May 2.3 June 2.4 July 2.5 August 2.6 October 2.7 November 3 Entered service

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 15 – A Skyline Sweden Vickers Viscount 838 crashes in Kälvesta, Sweden just outside Stockholm killing all 22 on board.

[edit] March

• March 27 - 579 people are killed when two Boeing 747s collide on the runway at Santa Cruz airport, Tenerife.

[edit] April

• April 4 - Southern Airways Flight 242 crash-landed on a highway after engine failure, 62 out of 85 aboard killed, 8 ground fatalities.
• April 28 - An Aviateca Convair 240 crashes near Guatemala City, Guatemala killing all 28 people on board

[edit] June

• June 30 - US president Jimmy Carter cancels the B-1 Lancer program

[edit] July

• July 23 - After threats of shutting down transatlantic air traffic, the U.S. and British governments reach the Bermuda II accord, giving British airlines additional ports of entry in the United States and removing American airlines' rights to carry passengers beyond London and Hong Kong.

[edit] August

• August 23 - Gossamer Condor became the first human-powered aeroplane, flying a figure-8 course to demonstrate sustained, controlled flight.
• August 31 - A Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 sets the current world altitude record for airbreathing aircraft of 123,524 ft. (37,650 m).

[edit] September

• September 26 - Laker Airways inaugurates its no-booking "Skytrain" service between London and New York
• September 28 – Japan Airlines Flight 472, a Douglas DC-8, is hijacked after taking off from Mumbai, India by Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorists. The terrorists forced the plane to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh were they demanded a US$6 million and the release of nine imprisoned JRA members being held in Japan. The Japanese government complied and all of the hostages were eventually released.

[edit] October

• October 13 – Lufthansa Flight 181 is hijacked by four Palestinians, members of the PFLP.
• October 26-31 - a Pan Am Boeing 747SP circumnavigates the world over the two poles

[edit] November

• November 19 - TAP Boeing 727 overran runway at Funchal, Madeira Islands and exploded killing 131.

[edit] December

• December 4 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 hijacked in mysterious circumstances.
• December 13 – National Jet Services DC-3 charter, crashed on takeoff from Evansville, Indiana en route to Nashville International Airport (BNA), killing all 29 on board, including the entire University of Evansville basketball team.

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• January 6 - HAL HPT-32 X2157
• January 31 - Cessna Citation II

[edit] May

• May 3 - Bell Model 301 NASA702
• May 17 - Sukhoi T-10 (prototype of Sukhoi Su-27
• May 26 - NDN-1 Firecracker G-NDNI

[edit] June

• June 27 - CASA C.101 Aviojet

[edit] July

• July 25 - Aero Design DG-1 N10E

[edit] August

• August 13 - Space Shuttle Enterprise (glide test)
• August 15 - Embraer EMB-111
• August 24 - Learjet 28

[edit] October

• October 20 - General Avia F15F I-PROL
• October 27- RFB Fantrainer 98+30

[edit] November

• November 22 - Antonov An-72 SSSR-19774

[edit] Entered service

September

• September 26 - Mitsubishi F-1 with Japan Air Self-Defense Force

November

• November 1 - Tupolev Tu-144