Date:	Saturday 12 December 1981
Time:
Type:	Boeing 727-25
Owner/operator:	Aeronica - Aerolineas Nicaraguenses
Registration:	YN-BXW
MSN:	18284/161
Year of manufacture:	1965
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Unlawful Interference
Location:	Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) -   Mexico
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX/MMMX)
Destination airport:	San Salvador-Comalapa International Airport (SAL/MSLP)

Narrative:
When the passengers were ready to embark the plane, a bomb exploded between the rearmost cabin seat on the left aisle and the cabin wall. The blast tore a 3 feet hole in the fuselage. The captain, two stewardesses and an airport mechanic where injured.

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

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


7 June 1986	YN-BXW	Aeronica - Aerolineas Nicaraguenses	0	Managua-Augusto C. Sandino Airport (MGA)		non
10 November 1991	YN-BXW	Aeronica - Aerolineas Nicaraguenses	0	Managua Airport (MGA)		w/o
Damaged on the ground

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