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Bojinka plot. The Bojinka plot ( Arabic: بوجينكا; Tagalog: Oplan Bojinka) was a large-scale, three-phase terrorist attack planned by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for January 1995. They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II; blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States, with the goal of killing approximately ...
Thousands of US flights were grounded Friday as a technical disaster plagued government agencies and businesses worldwide – leading to countless stranded passengers, canceled medical procedures ...
292. Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state. [ 1]
All 153 people on board survived uninjured. July 1: Continental Airlines Flight 12, a 707-124 N70773 overran the runway and crashed at Kansas City, Missouri, United States, with no casualties. [1] August 21: Middle East Airlines 720-047B is damaged beyond repair by shelling at Beirut, Lebanon.
October 30, 1941: American Airlines Flight 1, a Douglas DC-3 en route from New York City to Detroit with two stopovers at Buffalo and Chicago, stalled and dived into a plowed field over St. Thomas, Ontario, in Canada killing all 20 on board after circling to look for a place to land. Cause undetermined.
This is a list of destinations that Philippine Airlines and its regional subsidiary PAL Express have served as of August 2024, consisting of destinations across Asia, North America, and Oceania. [ 1 ]
American Airlines Flight 1 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York International (Idlewild) Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. During take-off on the March 1, 1962 flight, the Boeing 707 rolled over and crashed into Jamaica Bay in New York ...
There were over 2,600 flights canceled and nearly 9,200 delays as of 5 p.m. ET, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. Most airlines were able to resume operations as the morning ...