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
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.

Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
NRC Handelsblad 09.03.1972

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N761TW

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Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)

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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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