UTA Flight 772

Accident details

Date

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Location

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Country

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Operator

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Aircraft

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Registration

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From

000

Stopover

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To

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Passengers

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Crew

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Summary

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What happened

A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 explodes in mid-air over the Sahara desert when a bomb hidden in its forward cargo hold detonates. All 170 people on board are killed. Responsibility for the bombing is later traced back to Abdullah Senussi, the brother-in-law of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, whose government in 2003 agrees to pay compensation to the…

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