TWA Flight 840 bombing (1986)

When

2 Apr 1986

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

37.63° N, 22.73° E

Description

1986 airliner bombing

Deaths

4

Injured

7

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1986 airliner bombing

Trans World Airlines Flight 840 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Cairo via New York City, Rome, and Athens on April 2, 1986. About 20 minutes before landing in Athens, a bomb was detonated on the aircraft while it was over Argos, Greece, blasting a hole in the plane's starboard side.

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