Narita Airport Disaster

Narita Airport Disasters - History of disasters Narita Airport includes accidents and terrorist attacks. On 22 June 1985, a piece of luggage that was checked into Vancouver International Airport in Vancouver, British Columbia was in transit to an Air India flight in New Tokyo International Airport when it exploded, killing two baggage handlers in New Tokyo International Airport. 55 minutes later, a piece of luggage that also originated from Vancouver on Air India Flight 182 exploded, killing all of the passengers on the flight. On 11 December 1994, Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was flying on its second leg of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport - Mactan-Cebu International Airport - New Tokyo International Airport route when a bomb on board exploded, killing a passenger. The airliner was able to make an emergency landing. Authorities later found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb on the airliner to test the bomb for his Project Bojinka plot. His project was discovered in Manila, Philippines after an apartment fire on the night of 6 January and the morning of 7 January 1995. If the plot had not been discovered, one or more aircraft owned by a U.S. carrier/s flying to this airport would have blown up over the Pacific Ocean on 21 January 1995 as part of the project’s first phase. (Article based on Wikitravel article by Wikitravel users Jpatokal. Based on work by Paul N. Richter and Andrew Bennetts and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel. . Article used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0.) |