Date: | Wednesday 8 March 1972 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing 707-331 |
Owner/operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
Registration: | N761TW |
MSN: | 17673/69 |
Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT4A-12 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, NV (LAS) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | - |
Departure airport: | - |
Destination airport: | - |
Narrative:A bomb exploded in the right rear part of the cockpit while the aircraft was parked. Earlier someone had demanded USD 2.000.000 from TWA, threatening to blow up TWA aircraft.
Sources:
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
NRC Handelsblad 09.03.1972
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
29 May 1964 |
N761TW |
Trans World Airlines - TWA |
0 |
Paris-Orly Airport (ORY) |
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Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH); July 1970
photo (c) Fortepan: Holenár Csaba és Edina; Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF); 1964; (CC:by-sa)
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