Date: | Saturday 10 March 1984 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63PF |
Owner/operator: | Union de Transports Aériens - UTA |
Registration: | F-BOLL |
MSN: | 46096/499 |
Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 23 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | N'Djamena Airport (NDJ) -
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Brazzaville-Maya Maya Airport (BZV/FCBB) |
Destination airport: | N'Djamena Airport (NDJ/FTTJ) |
Narrative:UTA DC-8 F-BOLL operated on a flight from Brazzaville to Paris with an intermediate stop N'Djamena. The aircraft arrived at N'Djamena and was parked on the apron for a one hour stopover. Shortly afterwards a small bomb exploded in the baggage compartment. An evacuation was carried out and twenty minutes later, another explosion occurred in the central baggage compartment, destroying the aircraft.
Sources:
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistical and narrative reports / FAA
Jet-Airliner Unfälle seit 1952 / J. Richter, Chr. Wolf
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG); August 1973
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