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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1985:

1 Events

• Ryanair founded initially as a full-service carrier.

February

• TWA is the first airline to operate a twin-engine jet on scheduled trans-atlantic services, with the Boeing 767The Boeing 767 is a commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The Boeing 767, which was introduced in about the same time period as the 757, has a seat-to-aisle ratio in economy class of 3. 5 seats per aisle, making for qu
• February 19February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 315 days remaining, 316 in leap years. Events 607 Boniface III becomes Pope. 1674 England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfer - an IberiaIberia Airlines of Spain often shortened to Iberia is the name of Spain's national airline. Its IATA designator is IB. Iberia has flown many types of airliner, including the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340. It has also used Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC- Boeing 727The Boeing 727 was, for a very long time, the most popular jet-liner in the world. The 727 first took the skies during the 1960s, much earlier than its bigger and more famous sister the Boeing 747. The 727 design arose as a compromise between United Airli crashes in BilbaoGeography > Europe > Spain > Basque Country > Biscay Guggenheim Museum on the bottom right Bilbao ( Basque: Bilbo is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Pais Vasco and the capital of the province of Vizcaya (Basque: Bizkaia . A major seaport, killing 148. The plane got tangled with some televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p equipment as it tried to land.
• February 20February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 314 days remaining, 315 in leap years. Events 1472 Orkney and Shetland are annexed to the crown of Scotland. 1547 Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster A - a China AirlinesChina Airlines (CAL, Chinese: , commonly abbreviated ) is the state-owned airline of the Republic of China and is based in Taipei, Taiwan (not to be confused with Air China, which is owned by the People's Republic of China). The airline flies out of Chian 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.

March

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

April

• 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.

June

• 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.

August

• August 2 - a Delta Airlines 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

November

• 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

December

• 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