Philippine Airlines Flight 434
Boeing 747-283BM Combi · Bomb planted by Ramzi Yousef as a test for the Bojinka plot
From Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL) to Narita International Airport (NRT)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 293
- Survivors
- 292
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 10
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 747-283BM Combi
- Flight
- PR434
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- EI-BWF
- Operator
- Philippine Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)To Narita International Airport (NRT)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 (sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434) was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-200 that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state. The bombing was a test run of the unsuccessful Bojinka terrorist attacks. The Boeing 747 was flying the second leg of a route from Mactan–Cebu International Airport in Cebu, Philippines to Narita International Airport, in Tokyo, Japan. After the bomb detonated, 58-year-old veteran pilot Captain Eduardo "Ed" Reyes was able to land the aircraft, saving it and the remaining passengers and crew.
Authorities later discovered that Ramzi Yousef, a passenger on the aircraft's prior flight leg from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport, had placed the explosive. In order to not get caught, Yousef boarded the flight under the false name "Armaldo Forlani", which was an incorrect spelling of Arnaldo Forlani, the Prime Minister of Italy from 1980–1981. Yousef was later convicted of committing the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Philippine Airlines Flight 434
- Revision
- 1374708027 · 2026-09-13 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q1816505
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Philippine Airlines Flight 434" (page 367146, revision 1374708027)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.