Flight on December 11, 1994 that was damaged by a bomb
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Philippine Airlines Flight 434
EI-BWF, the accident aircraft, taxiing at Zurich Kloten International Airport in December 1988.
Bombing
Date
December 11, 1994
Summary
Bomb planted by Ramzi Yousef as a test for the Bojinka plot
Site
Minami Daito Island, Okinawa, Japan 25°50′45″N131°14′30″E / 25.84583°N 131.24167°E / 25.84583; 131.24167
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 747-283BM Combi
Operator
Philippine Airlines
Registration
EI-BWF
Flight origin
Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Pasay, Philippines
Stopover
Mactan–Cebu International Airport, Cebu, Philippines
Destination
Narita International Airport, Tokyo, Japan
Occupants
293
Passengers
273
Crew
20
Fatalities
1
Injuries
10
Survivors
292
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]
^Caña, Paul John (December 11, 2020). "Remembering the Bombing of PAL Flight 434". Esquiremag.ph. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
^"TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN EDUARDO REYES". Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
^State's Security Bureau Takes on Expanded Role, Washington Post, September 27, 2004.
^ abCNN.com, January 8, 1998. 'Proud terrorist' gets life for Trade Center Bombing.
^Yousef bombs Philippines Airlines Flight 434, GlobalSecurity.Org report on incident
^"Bomb on Board". Mayday. Season 3. Episode 5. 2005. Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic Channel.
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