April 2 - a bomb planted by a Palestinian terrorist group explodes aboard a TWABoeing 727 on a flight between Rome and Athens. Four passengers are killed and nine more injured, but the aircraft lands safely.
November 3 While attempting to land at Zahedan airport, an Iranian Hercules C-130 army transport plane crashes into a mountain; all 103 passengers are killed.
November 6 - a Boeing 234 crashes in the Shetland Isles, killing 45 people. It is history's worst helicopter disaster.
December 14-23: First non-stop flight around the planet without refueling - the Rutan Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, on a distance of 26,366 statute miles (the FAI accredited distance is 40,212 km)
General aviation manufacturers testified in Congress that the decline in manufacturing was because of the increased cost of insuring and defending products liability actions brought by plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Aviation professionals are sometimes confused because many states have their own statutes of repose applicable to air crash accidents in their state.
Anyone with an aviation law problem should be guided by the advice of his or her lawyer, under applicable federal and state laws, after a full and confidential disclosure of all relevant facts.
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