The aircraft involved (1983, one year after the incident) | |
Bombing | |
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Date | August 11, 1982 |
Summary | Terrorist bombing |
Site | Pacific Ocean, NW of Hawaii 23°30′34″N 160°34′22″W / 23.5095°N 160.5728°W / 23.5095; -160.5728 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 747-121 |
Aircraft name | Clipper Ocean Rover |
Operator | Pan American World Airways |
Registration | N754PA |
Flight origin | New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport) |
Stopover | Honolulu International Airport |
Destination | Los Angeles International Airport |
Occupants | 285 |
Passengers | 270 |
Crew | 15 |
Fatalities | 1 |
Injuries | 16 |
Survivors | 284 |
Pan Am Flight 830 was a flight from New Tokyo International Airport (now known as Narita International Airport) in Tokyo, Japan, to Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii. On August 11, 1982, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight, nicknamed Clipper Ocean Rover, was en route to Hawaii when the airplane was damaged by a bomb that had been placed on board. Despite the damage to the aircraft, Captain James E. "Skipper" O'Halloran III, of Spokane, Washington, was able to land in Honolulu safely. One person was killed while 284 survived; 16 of them were wounded.
At the time of the explosion, the aircraft was approximately 225 kilometers (140 mi; 121 nmi) northwest of Hawaii, cruising at 36,000 feet (11,000 m) with 270 passengers and 15 crew on board. The bomb, which had been placed under a seat cushion, killed 16 year-old Toru Ozawa, a Japanese national. The blast also injured 16 other people (including Ozawa's parents) and caused damage to the floor and ceiling. The aircraft remained airborne and made an emergency landing in Honolulu with no further loss of life.
The bomb was placed by Mohammed Rashed, a Jordanian linked to the 15 May Organization. After 4 years, in 1988, he was arrested in Greece, tried, convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was paroled in 1996 after serving eight years. He was later extradited to the US from Egypt in 1998 to stand trial. In 2006, as part of a plea bargain agreement he was sentenced to a further seven years in federal prison. As per his agreement with US prosecutors in providing information about other terrorist plots, he was released from prison in March 2013 but as of March 2014 still remained in a federal immigration detention facility in upstate New York awaiting deportation. Rashed was relocated to Mauritania in November 2016.
Husayn Muhammad al-Umari was also indicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 830 and in 2009 was placed on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. On November 24, 2009, the Department of State announced that it was offering a reward of up to $5 million for Abu Ibrahim, then about 73 years old. The previous reward of $200,000 had produced no results. As of March 2022, he is still at large.
The aircraft was later put back in service by Pan American World Airways and remained in operation for various carriers until the early 1990s. It was scrapped in 2005.
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Aviation accidents and incidents in 1982 (1982) | |
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Jan 13 Air Florida Flight 90Jan 18 Thunderbirds Indian Springs "Diamond Crash"Jan 23 World Airways Flight 30Feb 6 Korean Air Force C-123 crashFeb 9 Japan Air Lines Flight 350Feb 21 Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458Mar 11 Widerøe Flight 933Mar 20 Garuda Fokker F28 crashMar 26 Aeropesca Colombia Flight 217Apr 26 CAAC Flight 3303May 25 RAF Jaguar shootdown incidentJun 6 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incidentJun 8 VASP Flight 168Jun 12 TABA Fairchild FH-227 accidentJun 21 Air India Flight 403Jun 24 British Airways Flight 009Jun 28 Aeroflot Flight 8641Jul 6 Aeroflot Flight 411Jul 9 Pan Am Flight 759Jul 23 Twilight Zone accidentAug 11 Pan Am Flight 830Aug 26 Southwest Air Lines Flight 611Sep 1 Aerocondor DHC-4 Caribou accidentSep 13 Spantax Flight 995Sep 13 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 accidentSep 17 Japan Airlines Flight 792Sep 29 Aeroflot Flight 343Dec 9 Aeronor Flight 304Dec 24 CAAC Flight 2311 | |
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