Bomb blast in boeing 727: The air journey to a large section of people in the world still thrills a lot. At the same time, there are many people who are still dreaming of sitting in the plane, impressed by the thrill of air travel. But this exciting journey has changed many times in a terrible accident. The date of April 2 is also recorded with a unique and extremely frightening event in aviation history. Many people lost their lives in this terrible accident, including the life of a young innocent.

A terrible accident took place four decades ago

Nearly four decades ago, on the date of April 2 in 1986, a bomb blasted in Boeing 727, a passenger aircraft of TWA, a leading airline, USA. This aircraft was going through Rome. The distance between Rome to Athens is about 1272 km, which has to travel for about 15 hours to reach the train. At the same time, this journey from the aircraft can be completed in just two to three hours. For this reason, at that time, the aircraft of Athens from Rome was packed with passengers.

Bomb explosion in the aircraft caused a big hole

The aircraft was taken off from Rome at its scheduled time. After this, when the aircraft was at an altitude of about 15,000 feet in the air. According to local time, the bomb placed under a seat in the aircraft at about 02:32 minutes was exploded. The bomb exploded 3 to 4 feet big hole in the aircraft and four US citizens sitting at that place fell out of the aircraft due to wind pressure. An eight -month -old girl was also involved in this terrible accident.

Pilot had a plane made safe landing

This incident happened when the aircraft had reached very close to Athens Airport. However, no one was expected to survive after the bomb exploded in the aircraft. However, in this terrible situation, the pilot of the aircraft carefully gave the emergency and safe landing of the aircraft at Athens Airport, which saved the lives of 118 passengers sitting in the aircraft.

In the American passenger aircraft, the Bomb blast was taken responsibility by the AJDIN Kasam unit of Arab Revolutionary Sales and stated it as a revenge for American bombing against Libya.