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The Bojinka plot (Arabic: ... He was arrested in 1994 in Mountain View, California, for conspiring in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was financing the ...
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]
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (Arabic: رمزي أحمد يوسف, romanized: Ramzī Ahmad Yūsuf; born 27 April 1968) is a convicted Pakistani terrorist who was one of the main perpetrators and the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing [4] [5] and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434; he was also a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot.
Planning and surveillance in a 1995 plan (the "Bojinka plot") to bomb 12 American passenger jets; The planned assassination attempt against then-U.S. President Bill Clinton during a mid-1990s trip to the Philippines "Shared responsibility" for a plot to kill Pope John Paul II; Plans to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
A Boeing 747 flying from Cebu, Philippines to Tokyo was seriously damaged by a liquid explosive bomb which killed one passenger. Although vital control systems were damaged, pilots were able to safely land the airliner an hour later. The bomb was assembled and planted for al-Qaeda by Ramzi Yousef, as a test for planned bombings of the Bojinka plot.
On the night of January 6, 1995, she was suspicious about a small fire that went out unassisted at the Doña Josefa Apartments; her suspicions were augmented by a wave of bombings that hit Metro Manila, and Philippine Airlines Flight 434. This led her to uncover a terrorist plot made by alleged Al Qaida agents named Operation Bojinka. She came ...
Philippine Airlines Flight 434: A bomb exploded on a plane which was en route from Cebu to Tokyo. The bomb killed one passenger but did not destroy the plane. Ramzi Yousef had planted the bomb on the previous leg of the plane's journey from Manila to Cebu. The bombing was a test run for the later unsuccessful Bojinka plot: Al-Qaeda: December 24 ...
The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the largest mass killing in Canadian history, the deadliest aviation accident in the history of Air India and was the deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001.