Korean Air Flight 858 · Andaman Sea
On November 29, 1987, Korean Air Flight 858 (Andaman Sea). 115 people died.
- Date
- November 29, 1987
- Place
- Andaman Sea
- Killed
- 115
- Position
- 14.550°N, 97.383°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q495953
From Wikipedia
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.
The agents, acting upon orders from the North Korean government, planted the device before disembarking from the aircraft during the first stop-over, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. While the aircraft was flying over the Andaman Sea to its second stop-over, in Bangkok, Thailand, the bomb detonated and destroyed the Korean Air Boeing 707-3B5C. Everyone aboard the airliner was killed, a total of 104 passengers and 11 crew members, almost all of whom were South Korean. The attack occurred 34 years after the Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the hostilities of the Korean War on 27 July 1953.
The two bombers were traced to Bahrain, where they both took ampules of cyanide hidden in cigarettes when they realized they were about to be taken into custody.
Text from Wikipedia, “Korean Air Flight 858”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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