INPUT 1985

Setting the scene for 1985:

• China Airlines Flight 006 plunges 30,000 ft after the crew fails to respond to an engine failure.
• Amadeus wins the oscar for best picture.
• Coca-Cola releases New Coke and takes it off the market again less than 3 months later.
• Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger is killed.
• Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
• Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, on Space Shuttle Discovery.
• Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
• The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents.
• The Val di Stava Dam in Italy collapses, killing 280 people.
• Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer.
• Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
• Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people: the worst single-aircraft disaster in history.
• A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
• Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
• Comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Debuts in 35 newspapers
• Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
• EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
• Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256.
• Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.

	1985 - Issue 1 Output Entente Cordiale R/T FORUMOpening Speech An Airline" Operational Experience in the Use of R/T R/T, the Faltering Link Headset Hardware Defeciencies in R/T - The ATC Viewpoint The Development of RIT in International Aeronautical Communications (From Morse to Mode S) Influence of Noise at Work Aircraft Calling A flight Identification System for Air Traffic Incident without Accident - A Case Study Linguistic Features of English R/T Modern Audio Communications Equipment Blocked Frequencies and Simultaneous Transmissions The Contran Solution Forum Conclusions Written Comments Children of the Airways Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting (CHIRP) IFATCA '85 Athinai APPENDIX 1 List of External Participants
	1985 - Issue 2 Editorial Obituary The Vice President writes At Flight Level 230 above the Alps Maastricht Control has time for Tigers Eurocontrol was also there: Liege Airshow Impressions of a visit to Rhein Control Mitsubishi Biz jets TCAS Experimentation Part one - in the U.S.A. Collission Statistics in the U.S.A. Le Bourget Report In Reply "The Teneriffe Disaster" A Poem for a Pension by Eurospero Eindhoven's Special Fly-in London European Airways
	1985 - Issue 3 No table of content was printed in the magazine - you'll have to look for yourself...