Philippine Airlines Flight 434

Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was the route designator of a flight that flew on a Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila, Philippines - Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Cebu - New Tokyo International Airport (Now Narita International Airport), Narita, Japan near Tokyo route. On December 11, 1994, Flight 434 was on its second leg from Cebu to Tokyo when a bomb exploded, killing one passenger.

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Philippine Airlines - Ninoy Aquino International Airport - Manila, Philippines - Mactan-Cebu International Airport - Cebu - Narita International Airport - Narita, Japan - Tokyo - December 11 - 1994

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Authorities later discovered that a passenger on the aircraft's preceding leg was Ramzi Yousef, who United States authorities have branded a master Al-Qaida bomber and terrorist. Yousef boarded the flight under an assumed name.

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Ramzi Yousef - United States - Al-Qaida - Terrorist

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Yousef assembled a bomb in the lavatory and stuck it under Seat 27F on the right-hand side of the fuselage, setting the timer to explode the device four hours later. He and 25 other passengers left the plane at Cebu.

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Two hours before e.t.a. at Tokyo, the bomb exploded at 11:43 P.M. while Flight 434 was at flight level FL310 above Minami Daito Island, which is located nearby Okinawa and is 260 miles (420 km) southwest of Tokyo.

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Minami Daito Island - Okinawa - Tokyo

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The explosion tore out a two square foot (0.2 m²) portion of the fuselage and ripped almost in half the body of 24-year old Haruki Ikegami, a Japanese businessman occupying the seat. He was an industrial sewing machine maker returning from a trip to Cebu. Flight attendants placed a blanket where he was seating, but unfortunately, Ikegami did not survive. The bomb blew a hole into the floor revealing the cargo hold underneath. The fuselage of the plane stayed intact.

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Haruki Ikegami - Japanese

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EI-BWF, the Boeing 747-283B made an emergency landing in Naha, Okinawa, one hour after the bomb exploded. The pilots were barely able to land the plane. None of the aircraft's other 272 passengers or 20 crew members died, although 10 passengers sitting in front of Ikegami were injured.

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Boeing 747-283B - Naha - Okinawa

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