INPUT 1982

Setting the scene for 1982:

• Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.
• London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.
• Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on approach to Tokyo International Airport, killing 24 people among the 174 people on board.
• The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.
• Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
• The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano killing 323 sailors.
• The Weather Channel (United States) airs on cable television for the first time.
• Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
• The first Rubik's Cube World Championships is held in Budapest, Hungary.
• VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into forest Fortaleza, killing 137.
• The Falklands War ends: A formal surrender is agreed on June 14th.
• British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia's Galunggung.
• Larry Walters, a.k.a. Lawn Chair Larry, flies 16,000 feet above Long Beach, California in lawn chair with weather balloons attached.
• Pan Am Flight 759 (Boeing 727) crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.
• Italy beats West Germany 3-1 to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
• The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
• The first emoticons are posted by Scott Fahlman.
• A gasoline tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 2,000 people.
• Lech Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
• Michael Jackson's #1 album Thriller is released, to become the biggest selling album of all time in entertainment history.
• Time Magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
   

	1982 - Issue 1 OUTPUT Eck's President's Message President's Message Guild Future Activities Aviation Glossary Cabin Crew Injury 2001-An Airspace Odyssey The Big Question Old Soldiers Never Die Rumours American Dream Pilot Incapacitation Miscellaneous
	1982 - Issue 2 Letters to the Editor OUTPUT President's Message Travel Section Column 1982 IFATCA Conference Amsterdam Puzzle Application to Headquarters EGATS Technical Committee Column Sports Page: E.C.C. 1982 Dublin Breaks and Breaklists ATC Holiday Exchange Program EGATS Member finds Appreciation in South America
	1982 - Issue 3 - 10th anniversary issue! Output President's message Many happy returns Instute of Air Navigation Services Luxembourg Philips I had a dream K.L.M. Short-cut shortcomings Finnair/USAF Open letter to company pilots Past,Present and Future N.L.M. Singapore Airlines A.T.C. and the independent pilot Puzzle Talking about anniversaries Dan-Air Hooper Central Route Charges Office Transavia U.A.G.B.P.A.R.S. MATCAB IFATCA The spirit of the Spitfire
	1982 - Issue 4 Output President's message Fuel Economy Forum The Frill is gone France blamed for Air Disaster Flexibility? A Golden Oldie A Technical Breakthrough Norms Sports Page Meteosat About Trainees, Training Officers and Training Systems How to make 10.000 Friends in one easy Lesson IFATCA Regional Meeting Luxembourg Latest Rumour Bits and Pieces