Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack.
(CNN)Here's a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism.
June 14, 1940 - Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia to Finland, killing all nine on board. One passenger was Henry W. Antheil Jr., an American diplomat who was carrying diplomatic pouches from U.S. legations in Estonia and Latvia.
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack.
(CNN)Here's a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism.
June 14, 1940 - Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia to Finland, killing all nine on board. One passenger was Henry W. Antheil Jr., an American diplomat who was carrying diplomatic pouches from U.S. legations in Estonia and Latvia.
March 3, 1942 - The Japanese shoot down a KNILM flight on its way to
Broome, Australia. The plane crash lands on the beach at Carnot Bay as the
Japanese continue shooting at it. Four people die.
June 1, 1943 - British actor Leslie Howard is among 17 killed when German
fighters shoot down a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight over the Bay
of Biscay.
July 23, 1954 - A Cathay Pacific flight is shot down by a Chinese Army
fighter plane off the coast of Hainan Island, killing 10 people.
April 11, 1955 - Sixteen people die when a bomb explodes on an Air India
flight from Hong Kong to Jakarta. The "Kashmir Princess" was flying to the
Afro-Asian Bandung conference. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai may have been the
target; however, he was not on the flight.
July 27, 1955 - El Al Flight 402, bound for Israel, is shot down by two
Bulgarian fighter jets after the plane strays into Bulgarian territory. All 58
on board are killed.
May 10, 1961 - Following an onboard explosion, Air France Flight 406
crashes near Algeria, killing all 78 people on board.
October 12, 1967 - A bomb goes off on Cyprus Airways Flight 284 on its way
from Athens, Greece, to Cyprus, killing all 66 on board. No one claims
responsibility, and the perpetrators remain undiscovered.
February 21, 1970 - A Swissair flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv crashes after
a bomb explodes. All 47 people on board die. The Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine initially claims responsibility, but later denies
involvement, according to news reports. Swiss officials, who had named suspects
from Jordan, end their investigation in 2000 without having solved the
case.
February 21, 1973 - Israeli fighters shoot down a Libyan Arab Airlines
plane after it strays into the airspace of the Sinai Peninsula, then under
Israeli control. Of the 113 people on board, 108 are killed.
May 18, 1973 - An Aeroflot flight explodes above Siberia on its way to
Chita from Moscow after a hijacker detonates a bomb. At least 80 people are
killed.
September 8, 1974 - All 88 passengers on a TWA flight that originated in
Tel Aviv, but had just taken off from Athens, Greece, are killed when an
explosion causes the plane to crash. Terrorists linked to the Abu Nidal group
are suspected.
January 1, 1976 - A bomb explodes on a Middle East Airlines flight from
Beirut to Dubai. At least 80 people on board are killed. No one claims
responsibility.
October 6, 1976 - A Cubana Airlines flight explodes near Barbados, killing
all 73 people on board. Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile and former CIA
agent, is charged with the bombing, as is Orlando Bosch, a Posada collaborator.
Incarcerated while awaiting trial, Posada spends nine years in a jail in
Venezuela, until he escapes in 1985. Bosch is released in 1987. The two were
never convicted.
September 3, 1978 - Air Rhodesia Flight 825 is shot down by guerrillas in
the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army. The plane crash-lands, killing 38 of
the 56 passengers and crew members. The guerrillas kill 10 of the
survivors.
February 12, 1979 - All 59 people on board Air Rhodesia Flight 827 die when
the plane is shot down by a missile fired by guerrilla forces during the
country's civil war.
August 11, 1982 - A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, carrying 270
passengers from Tokyo to Hawaii. A Japanese teenager is killed and several other
passengers are injured. Mohammed Rashed of the 15 May terrorist group is
arrested in Greece in 1988 and serves eight years of a 15-year prison sentence
there. He is arrested by the FBI in 1998 and brought back to the United States.
He is convicted in 2006 on conspiracy and murder charges. He is released in
2013.
August 31, 1983 - Soviet fighter jets shoot down Korean Air Lines Flight
007 as it flies over Soviet air space by mistake. All 269 on board are
killed.
September 23, 1983 - 112 people are killed when a Gulf Air jet is brought
down by a bomb in the cargo hold. The plane was flying from Pakistan to the
United Arab Emirates when it went down in the United Arab Emirates. Terrorists
from the Abu Nidal group are linked to the attack.
June 23, 1985 - Air India Flight 182 explodes near Ireland. With 329
fatalities, it is the deadliest commercial aviation bombing to date. Both Sikh
and Kashmiri terrorists are blamed for the attack. Inderjit Singh Reyat, a Sikh,
is the only person convicted. He pleads guilty to a manslaughter
charge.
November 29, 1987 - Two North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air
Flight 858, flying from Baghdad, Iraq, to Seoul, South Korea. The explosion
kills all on board, 104 passengers and 11 crew members.
July 3, 1988 - The USS Vincennes mistakes an Iran Air Airbus for an Iranian
fighter jet and shoots down the passenger plane bound for Dubai, United Arab
Emirates, killing all 290 people aboard.
December 21, 1988 - Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. The United States
and United Kingdom blame Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who was once security
chief for Libyan Arab Airlines, and Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah -- accusing them
both of being Libyan intelligence agents. Libya eventually hands over both men
to the United Nations in 1999 and later agrees to pay $2.7 billion to victims'
families. Al Megrahi is convicted while Fhimah is acquitted. Al Megrahi is
released for medical reasons in 2009 and dies in 2012.
September 19, 1989 - UTA Flight 772 traveling to Paris is brought down over
the Sahara desert by a bomb in a suitcase, and all 156 passengers and 14 crew
members are killed. A French court in 1999 finds six Libyans guilty in absentia
and sentences them to life in prison.
November 27, 1989 - A bomb goes off on Avianca Flight 203 traveling from
Bogota, Colombia. All 107 passengers are killed in the crash. Colombian drug
kingpin Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel are blamed for the explosion.
Two Americans are among the victims, and a U.S. federal court in 1994 convicts
Colombian Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera, an alleged assassin for the cartel, of
murder.
September 21, 1993 - On three consecutive days beginning on this day, three
civilian planes belonging to Transair Georgia are hit by missiles, killing 136
people altogether. Two planes are hit by Abkhazian rebel missiles, with 27
people killed aboard one and 108 on the other. A third plane comes under fire as
it is being boarded, and one person is killed.
December 11, 1994 - A bomb goes off under a seat on a Philippines Airlines
flight from Manila to Tokyo, killing one person and injuring several others.
Ramzi Yousef, one of those charged with bombing the World Trade Center in 1993,
is convicted in 1996 for the bombing and for plotting to blow up 12 U.S.
airliners.
September 11, 2001 - 19 terrorists hijack four U.S. commercial airlines.
Orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as an attack on the United
States, a total of 2,977 people are killed, including 2,753 who die when
American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are intentionally
crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan. American Airlines flight 77
crashes into the Pentagon, killing 184 people. Forty people die when United
Airlines flight 93 crashes into a field near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania.
October 4, 2001 - A Sibir Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk,
Russia, is shot down and plunges into the Black Sea, killing all 78 aboard. The
Ukrainian military denies responsibility at first but later admits it mistakenly
shot down the plane during a training exercise.
August 24, 2004 - Two female Chechen suicide bombers almost simultaneously
blow up two Russian passenger planes flying out of Moscow, killing
90.
July 17, 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Ukrainian
territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. All 298 people on board are
killed.
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