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Cubana Flight 455

1976 CE · North America · War

Cubana Flight 455
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Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was an international Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.

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