1989 in aviation

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

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

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 4 - US Navy F-14 Tomcats shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s
• January 8 - a British Midland Boeing 737-400 crashes on the M1 motorway near Kegworth, killing 32 people.

[edit] 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 Boeing 747 over Hawaii. Eleven people are sucked to their deaths.

[edit] 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)

[edit] April

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.^[1]
• 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] First flights

[edit] January

• January 2 - Tupolev Tu-154
• January 11 - AASI Jetcruzer 450

[edit] March

• Yakovlev Yak-141
• March 19 - V-22 Osprey

[edit] April

• April 30 - SOCATA Omega

[edit] May

• May 28 - AIDC Ching-Kuo

[edit] July

• July 17 - B-2 Spirit

[edit] October

• October 7 - Enstrom 480

[edit] December

• December 26 - NAMC N-5

[edit] Entered service

• February 9 - Boeing 747-400 with Northwest Airlines
• October 27 - ATR-72 with Kar Air