Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, People's Republic of the Congo
Stopover
N'Djamena Int'l. Airport, N'Djamena, Chad
Destination
Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France
Occupants
170
Passengers
156
Crew
14
Fatalities
170
Survivors
0
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, which crashed into the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger, on 19 September 1989 with the loss of all 170 people on board, after an in-flight explosion caused by a suitcase bomb. It is the deadliest aviation incident to occur in Niger.
UTAFlight772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) operating from Brazzaville in the...
in both the Pan Am Flight 103 and UTAFlight772 sabotages. Another theory suggests that it was in direct response to Iran Air Flight 655, the Arab world...
Pan Am Flight 103 and, in January 2004, agreed to pay $170 million to the families of the 170 victims of UTAFlight772. The seven American UTA victims'...
militants, and alleged responsibility for bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTAFlight772 left it increasingly isolated on the world stage. A particularly...
trafficking. In 1989, he was the first officer to make it to the site of the UTAFlight772 crash in the Ténéré desert, for which he was decorated. He also served...
the members of Gaddafi's inner circle, identified as a planner of the UTAFlight772 attack, and head of the Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (Jamahiriya Security...
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flights, when a bomb inside the suitcase exploded: 1983: Gulf Air Flight 771 1985: Air India Flight 182 1988: Pan Am Flight 103 1989: UTAFlight772 Spare...
years later on 19 September 1989, a French airliner, UTAFlight772, was destroyed by an in-flight explosion for which Libyan agents were convicted in...
and incidents involving commercial aircraft UTAFlight772, which was bombed over a desert Air France Flight 2005, another Air France aviation disaster...
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all 269 people on board including U.S. Representative Larry McDonald. UTAFlight772, which was destroyed by a bomb on 19 September 1989 above the Sahara...
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