Date:	Monday 31 August 1981
Time:	03:00
Type:	Boeing 720-023B
Owner/operator:	Middle East Airlines - MEA
Registration:	OD-AFR
MSN:	18018/157
Year of manufacture:	1960
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT3D-1-MC7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Unlawful Interference
Location:	Beirut International Airport (BEY) -   Lebanon
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Benghazi-Benina International Airport (BEN/HLLB)
Destination airport:	Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA)

Narrative:
Shortly after arriving from a flight from Libya, an explosion of approx. 5 kg of dynamite destroyed the aircraft.

Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
The Sumter Daily Item - Aug 31, 1981

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


16 August 1973

OD-AFR

Middle East Airlines - MEA

0

Tel Aviv-Lod International Airport (TLV)

non

photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA); 09 February 1975

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