List of Accidents and Incidents Involving Commercial Aircraft - 1984

1984

• January 10 – The 1984 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash into a forest near Sofia, Bulgaria during a snowstorm kills all 50 people on board.
• March 22 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 501, a Boeing 737, suffers an uncontained engine failure during takeoff from Calgary; all passengers and crew were safely evacuated, but the plane burns to the ground.
• August 2 – Vieques Air Link Flight 901A, a Britten-Norman Islander, crashes on take=off from Vieques Airport, Vieques, Puerto Rico, due to mixing of water and gas on left engine, killing eight passengers and its lone crew member, its pilot.
• August 30 – Cameroon Airlines Flight 786, a Boeing 737, with 109 passengers and 7 crew on board, suffers an uncontained engine failure during taxi for take-off at the Douala, Cameroon airport, starting a fire; two persons die as the plane burns to the ground.
• October 1 – Aeroflot Flight 3352, a Tupolev Tu-154B-1, crashes on landing at Tsentralny Airport, Omsk Russia. One hundred and seventy-four passengers and four people on the ground perish in the crash.
• December 6 – PBA Flight 1039, an Embraer 110 Bandeirante with 13 passengers and crew on board, crashes on takeoff at Jacksonville, Florida, killing all aboard.