1989 in aviation
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1989:
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[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 Flight 811 over Hawaii. 9 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 21 - Rare Bear sets a new piston-powered speed record of 528.33mph
- 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
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[edit] April
- April 30 - SOCATA Omega
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[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
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