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1981 in aviation

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Years in aviation: 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years: 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1981.

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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  • September 2 – An overloaded Taxi Aéreo El Venado Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante (registration HK-2651) fails to gain altitude after takeoff from Juan Jose Rondon Airport in Paipa, Colombia. Maneuvering to avoid trees and buildings, it stalls, crashes 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the airport, and catches fire. The crash and fire kill 17 of the 22 people on board immediately, and four of those pulled alive from the wreckage die of their injuries within a day of the accident.[40]
  • September 3 – McDonnell Douglas delivers the 1,000th DC-9 produced, a DC-9 Super 80; it was ordered by Swissair.[41]
  • September 10 – British Airways CEO Roy Watts announces a financial crisis for the airline. He states that the company is losing £UK 200 per minute.
  • September 11 – a twin-engine airplane crashes into the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, CA. Two people aboard the plane are killed. As a result of the crash, the auditorium is irreparably damaged. [42]
  • September 18 – An Aeroflot Yakovlev Yak-40 (registration CCCP-87455) on approach to Irkutsk Airport in Irkutsk collides over the Soviet Union with an Aeroflot Mil Mi-8 helicopter (registration CCCP-22268) on a training flight at an altitude of 400 meters (1,300 feet) 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) from Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy. Both aircraft crash, killing all 33 people on the Yak-40 and seven people on the helicopter.[43]
  • September 22 – An Ilyushin Il-86, flown by G. Volokhov, sets a series of world speed records for flight over a 2,000 km (1,200 mi; 1,100 nmi) closed circuit for aircraft with payloads of 30,000–65,000 kg (66,000–143,000 lb), with a speed of 975.3 km/h (606.0 mph; 526.6 kn).[44]
  • September 24 – G. Volokhov sets another set of closed circuit speed records in an Ilyushin Il-86, over a 1,000 km (620 mi; 540 nmi) circuit with payloads of 30,000–80,000 kg (66,000–176,000 lb), at a speed of 962 km/h (598 mph; 519 kn).[44]
  • September 29 – An Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules crashes at Kahrizak, Iran, during a flight from the Iran–Iraq War's front line to Tehran, killing 80 people. Iran's minister of defense, his chief of staff, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army chief of staff, and the regional commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are among the dead.[45][46]

October

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November

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December

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First flights

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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November

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December

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Entered service

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January

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April

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December

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Retirements

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Deadliest crash

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The deadliest crash of this year was Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 which crashed into mountainous terrain on the island of Corsica, France on 1 December, killing all 180 people on board. The second deadliest of the 1980s took place only 3 months before, when Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103, also a Boeing 737, was destroyed by a in-flight breakup over the Miaoli County west of Sanyi Township on 22 August, killing all 110 people on board.

References

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  3. ^ a b Taylor Jane's 1981–1982 Aviation Annual, p. 32.
  4. ^ a b Taylor Jane's 1981–1982 Aviation Annual, p. 33.
  5. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-104A CCCP-42332 Leningrad". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  6. ^ Witkin, Richard (27 February 1981). "JET CREW TO BE ASKED ABOUT 'NEAR MISS'". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2023 – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Embraer EMB-110P Bandeirante PT-GLB Belém Airport, PA (BEL)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  8. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed MC-130E Combat Talon I 64-0564 Tabones Island". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  9. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Breguet 1150 Atlantic 29 Moroni-Prince Said Ibrahim In Airport (HAH)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  10. ^ Gardiner, Robert, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1982, Part One: The Western Powers, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-918-9, p. 66.
  11. ^ a b Taylor Jane's 1981–1982 Aviation Annual, p. 36.
  12. ^ a b Cordesman, Anthony H., and Abraham R. Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War, Volume II: The Iran–Iraq War, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8133-1330-9, p. 119.
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  18. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-440-11 XA-HEK Pinarete Mountain". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
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  21. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 HC-BAX Zumba". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  22. ^ "Congress investigates military drug use in wake of USS Nimitz accident". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  23. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed C-130H Hercules SU-BAH/1276 Cairo West Air Base". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  24. ^ Mondey 1982, p. 11
  25. ^ "Record: Richard G. Rutan (USA) (1899)". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
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  27. ^ Brogan, Patrick, The Fighting Never Stopped: A Comprehensive Guide to Global Conflict Since 1945, New York: Vintage Books, 1990, ISBN 0-679-72033-2, p. 262.
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  33. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 XA-DEN Chihuahua-Gen Fierro Villalobos Airport (CUU)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
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  35. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-14M CCCP-91517 Utichiy Island". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
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  38. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Antonov An-24RV CCCP-46653 Zavitinsk". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  39. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 745D Viscount HK-1320 Florencia". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  40. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante HK-2651 Paipa-Juan Jose Rondon Airport". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  41. ^ Mondey 1982, p. 14
  42. ^ "Two dead after small plane runs into Swing Auditorium". Daily Press. Victorville, CA. 13 September 1981. p. A2. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  43. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-40 CCCP-87455 Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskiy Airport". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
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  45. ^ Cordesman and Wagner, p. 125.
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  60. ^ Taylor 1982, p. 140.
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  • Taylor, John W. R., ed. (1981). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1981–82. London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0729-6.
  • Taylor, John W. R., ed. (1982). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1982–83. London: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2.
  • Taylor, Michael J. H., ed. (1981). Jane's 1981–1982 Aviation Annual. London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0138-7.
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