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Events

• Ryanair founded initially as a full-service carrier.

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• TWA is the first airline to operate a twin-engine jet on scheduled trans-atlantic services, with the Boeing 767
• February 19 - an Iberia Boeing 727 crashes in Bilbao, killing 148. The plane got tangled with some television equipment as it tried to land.
• February 20 - a British Airways Boeing 747 miraculously survives the shut down of all four engines and a 30,000-foot (9,146 m) plunge over the Pacific Ocean. The problem was caused by volcanic ash ingested by the engines.

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• March 15 - American Eagle Airlines, a commuter subsidiary of American Airlines, begins service.

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• April 22 - Pan Am reaches a deal with United Airlines, which buys Pan Am's Pacific Ocean routes for $US 750 million.
• April 24 - LOT Polish Airlines inaugurates flights to JFK International Airport in New York.

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• June 15 - Amal guerrilla gunmen hijack a TWA Boeing 727 en route from Rome to Athens. The plane, which includes some Jewish passengers, is then re-routed and taken to Algiers, Beirut, and Algiers again before setting in Beirut. The 39 passengers and crew are freed on July 1 after Israel agrees to free 700 Shiite prisoners.
• June 23 - an Air India Boeing 747 explodes off the Irish coast, killing all passengers. A terrorist bomb is suspected, but never confirmed.

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• August 2 - Delta Airlines Flight 191, a Lockheed TriStar, crashes within inches of the runway at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, exploding and killing 133 persons, including a car driver who had been struck by the plane just before it exploded.
• August 12 - Japan Airlines flight 123, from Tokyo to Osaka, crashes. The Boeing 747 had an explosion, then hit Mount Otsuka, killing 520 of 524 people on board. Rescuers are later shocked and saddened to find farewell notes that the passengers had written for their family and friends, next to the bodies. As of 2004 this is still the worst single-aircraft air disaster
• August 21 - Sir Freddie Laker accepts a £UK 8 million in a settlement with British Airways. Laker had sued twelve airlines for conspiring to drive Laker Airways out of business
• August 22 - a Boeing 737 of British Airtours explodes in Manchester before taking off, killing 54 of the 134 people on board and punctuating commercial aviation's worst month in history.
• August 26 - TWA is purchased by Carl Icahn and associates

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• November 18 - Cessna is purchased by General Dynamics
• November 23 - an Egyptair jet is hijacked after take-off from Athens, and comandeered to Cairo. The next day, Egyptian forces storm the plane that was hijacked, starting a gun battle with the hijackers. 60 people die in the cross-fire

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• December 12 - a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 of charter airline Arrow Air crashes while taking 250 soldiers back to the United States for Christmas, killing everyone on board. See: Arrow Air Flight 1285

December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Douglas DC-8 is a four-engined jet airliner, manufactured between 1959 and 1972. ... A charter airline is one that operates charter flights, that is flights that take place outside normal schedules, by a hiring arrangement with a particular customer. ... Arrow Air is a cargo airline based in Miami, Florida. ... Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ... Arrow Air Flight 1285 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 registered N950JW. On December 12, 1985, the aircraft was chartered to carry US servicemen from a six-month stay in the Sinai, where they were overseeing a peacekeeping force, back to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. ...

First flights

February

• February 3 - Atlas Alpha XH-1
• February 12 - Valmet L-90 Redigo prototype OH-VBB

March February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Alpha XH-1 The Alpha XH-1 was a prototype attack helicopter built by Atlas Aviation (now Denel Aviation) of South Africa, which used it as a concept demonstrator for the then-planned Rooivalk project. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Aermacchi M-290 TP RediGO is a turboprop-powered military basic trainer aircraft. ...

• March 11 - ARV Super 2

July 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ...

• July 29 - Kawasaki T-4

August July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... The Kawasaki T-4 is a subsonic intermediate jet trainer aircraft used by the Japan Air Self Defense Force. ...

• August 30 - Bell D-292

October August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ...

• October 15 - Fairchild Republic T-46

October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... The Fairchild Republic T-46 (nicknamed the Eaglet) was a light jet trainer aircraft of the 1980s that was cancelled, with only three aircraft being produced. ...

Entered service

December

• December 3 - ATR-42 with Air Littoral

December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Stub | International airliners 1980-1989 ... Air Littoral was an airline in France founded in 1972 and originally based at Montpellier. ...