This is a list of aviation-related events from 1984:
Events
February
February 21 - 14 hours and 2 minutes after taking off from New York, Air France pilot Patrick Fourticq and his companion, race driver Henry Pescarolo, land their Piper Malibu in Paris, setting a world record for a trans-Atlantic flight by a single engined light aircraft.
February 29 - American Airlines sets an industry record by ordering 67 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 airliners, with options to order 100 more in the future.
April
April 29 - TWA starts services to ten new cities in one day, the largest single day expansion in the carrier's history.
July 3 - Air Florida suspends all their flights after going bankrupt.
July 23 - an Air CanadaBoeing 767 runs out of fuel on its way from Montreal to Edmonton. Ground crew at the Montreal airport miscalculated the flight's length and did not put enough fuel in it. Pilot Robert Pearson, an amateur glider pilot, lands the plane safely at Gimli, making the incident famous as the "Gimli Glider"
In addition to the warehousing problems associated with stockage of an AVCAL and COSAL for use with the composite MAG, present aviation supply planners are having to develop a policy for the control, accountability, and warehousing of the ten day pack-up that is scheduled for delivery in Fiscal Years 1987 and 1988.
Aviation supply planners must for- mulate an answer to this problem well in advance of the T-AVB deployment.
Futhermore with the SOP's the aviation supply community will, within 48 hours of notice, form a composite group supply department ready to embark on the T-AVB to sail to a crisis area, assured that prompt and responsive supply support will be provided to the squadrons of the ACE.
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