Bombs on board
Aircraft attacked with explosives carried on board or planted before departure, and other deliberate sabotage. Bomb hoaxes and threats are left out.
The NTSB does not code these as a kind of event; the records come from Wikipedia articles whose infobox or title names it.
50 occurrences, 1949 to 2016 · 39 fatal, 2,303 deaths
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