ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327966
| Date: | Saturday 12 December 1981 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 727-25 |
| Owner/operator: | Aeronica - Aerolineas Nicaraguenses |
| Registration: | YN-BXW |
| MSN: | 18284/161 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) -
 Mexico
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX/MMMX) |
| San Salvador-Comalapa International Airport (SAL/MSLP) |
When the passengers were ready to embark the plane, a bomb exploded between the rearmost cabin seat on the left aisle and the cabin wall. The blast tore a 3 feet hole in the fuselage. The captain, two stewardesses and an airport mechanic where injured.
Sources:
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 June 1986 | YN-BXW | Aeronica - Aerolineas Nicaraguenses | 0 | Managua-Augusto C. Sandino Airport (MGA) |  |
non |
| 10 November 1991 | YN-BXW | Aeronica - Aerolineas Nicaraguenses | 0 | Managua Airport (MGA) | |
w/o |
| Damaged on the ground | ||||||
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