- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | December 10, 1994 |
Time: | 1130 |
Location: | Pacific Ocean |
Operator: | Philippine Air Lines |
Flight #: | 434 |
Route: | Manila - Cebu - Tokyo |
AC Type: | Boeing B-747-200 |
Registration: | EI-BWF |
cn / ln: | 21575 |
Aboard: | 293 (passengers:273 crew:20) |
Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | An explosive device detonated at FL 300 under a seat in the passenger cabin blowing a two square foot hole in the cabin floor and killing one passenger in seat 26K. The bomb was placed on the plane by Ramzi Yousef, an Al-Qaeda terrorist, on the flight from Manila to Cebu. The explosion occurred on the second journey of the flight from Cebu to Tokyo. The plane made a safe emergency landing at Okinawa in spite of damage to the flight controls. |
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