Cubana de Aviación Flight 455

When

6 Oct 1976

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

13.13° N, 59.73° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Cubana de Aviación Flight 455.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.

1976 airliner bombing of a Cubana passenger flight

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was an international Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attentat anti-castriste du vol 455 Cubana, qui provoque la mort de 73 personnes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Террористы взорвали кубинский самолёт Douglas DC-8, погибли 73 человека”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Barbados, terroristas cubanos ―entre ellos los cubanos Luis Posada Carriles y Orlando Bosch y los venezolanos Freddy Lugo y Hernán Ricardo―”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page