Korean Air Flight 858

When

29 Nov 1987

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

14.55° N, 97.38° E

Description

1987 airliner bombing

Deaths

115

Injured

0

1987 aircraft bombing over the Andaman Sea

Korean Air Flight 858 was a scheduled international passenger flight between Baghdad, Iraq, and Seoul, South Korea. On 29 November 1987, the Boeing 707 flying the route exploded in mid-air upon the detonation of a bomb planted inside an overhead storage bin in the airplane's passenger cabin by two North Korean agents.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Korean Air Flight 858 is blown up over the Andaman Sea, killing 115 crew and passengers”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In einer Boeing 707 der Korean Air explodiert über Myanmar eine Bombe”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attentat nord-coréen contre le vol 858 Korean Air, qui explose en plein vol au-dessus de la mer d’Andaman (115 victimes)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “взрыв Boeing 707 над Андаманским морем, погибли 115 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Corea del Sur, el vuelo 858 de Korean Air estalla en pleno vuelo: mueren 115 personas entre pasajeros y tripulación”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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