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Philippine Airlines Flight 434
EI-BWF, the accident aircraft, taxiing at Zurich Kloten International Airport in December 1988.
Bombing
DateDecember 11, 1994
SummaryBomb planted by Ramzi Yousef as a test for the Bojinka plot
SiteMinami Daito Island, Okinawa, Japan
25°50′45″N 131°14′30″E / 25.84583°N 131.24167°E / 25.84583; 131.24167
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 747-283BM Combi
OperatorPhilippine Airlines
RegistrationEI-BWF
Flight originNinoy Aquino International Airport, Pasay, Philippines
StopoverMactan–Cebu International Airport, Cebu, Philippines
DestinationNarita International Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Occupants293
Passengers273
Crew20
Fatalities1
Injuries10
Survivors292

Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a flight on December 11, 1994, from Cebu to Tokyo on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state.[1] The bombing was a test run of the unsuccessful Bojinka terrorist attacks. The Boeing 747 (tail number EI-BWF) was flying the second leg of a route from Ninoy Aquino International Airport (formerly Manila International Airport or NAIA), Pasay in the Philippines, to Narita International Airport, in Tokyo, Japan, with a stop at Mactan–Cebu International Airport, Cebu, in the Philippines. After the bomb detonated, 58-year-old veteran pilot Captain Eduardo "Ed" Reyes was able to land the aircraft, saving it and the remaining passengers and crew.[2]

Authorities later discovered that Ramzi Yousef, a passenger on the aircraft's prior flight leg, had placed the explosive.[3][4] Yousef boarded the flight under the fake Italian name "Armaldo Forlani", an incorrect spelling of the name of the Italian legislator[5] Arnaldo Forlani, in order not to get caught.[6] Yousef was later convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[4]

  1. ^ Caña, Paul John (December 11, 2020). "Remembering the Bombing of PAL Flight 434". Esquiremag.ph. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  2. ^ "TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN EDUARDO REYES". Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  3. ^ State's Security Bureau Takes on Expanded Role, Washington Post, September 27, 2004.
  4. ^ a b CNN.com, January 8, 1998. 'Proud terrorist' gets life for Trade Center Bombing.
  5. ^ Yousef bombs Philippines Airlines Flight 434, GlobalSecurity.Org report on incident
  6. ^ "Bomb on Board". Mayday. Season 3. Episode 5. 2005. Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic Channel.

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