 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident similar to the aircraft involved | |
| Incident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 23 July 1974[1] |
| Summary | Attempted bombing |
| Aircraft type | Hawker Siddeley Trident |
| Operator | British Airways |
| Registration | Unknown |
| Flight origin | Aldergrove Airport, Antrim Town, Northern Ireland |
| Destination | Heathrow Airport, Middlesex, Great Britain |
| Passengers | 85 |
| Crew | Unknown |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 85+ |
On 23 July 1974, a small bomb was found aboard a British Airways flight from Aldergrove Airport, near Belfast, to London, following a telephoned warning. The flight made an emergency landing at Manchester Airport. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed it had planted the bomb as a symbolic act, and that it had not been set to explode.[2] It is the only time that the IRA has planted a bomb aboard an aircraft, and was the second terrorist incident involving a bomb aboard an aircraft in the United Kingdom.[3]
- ^ "Bomb found on Trident". Flight International, 1 August 1974, p.99
- ^ "I.R.A. Admits Planting Bomb on British Plane". The New York Times. 26 July 1974.
- ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2018.