TWA Flight 840 (1986)

Infobox Airliner accident|name=TWA Flight 840
Date=April 2, 1986
Type=Bombing
Site=Argos, Greece
Origin=Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport
Destination=Athens (Ellinikon) International Airport
Fatalities=4
Injuries=5
Aircraft Type=Boeing 727-231
Operator=Trans World Airlines
Tail Number=airreg|N|54340|disaster
Passengers=114
Crew=7
Survivors=117

: "This article is about the 1986 bombing. For the 1969 bombing, see TWA Flight 840 (1969)."

Trans World Airlines Flight 840, registration N54340, was a Boeing 727-231 flying enroute from Rome's Fiumicino Airport to Athens. A bomb was detonated on the aircraft while it was over Argos, Greece, ejecting four American passengers (including a nine-month-old infant) to their deaths below. Five others on the aircraft were injured as the cabin suffered a rapid decompression. The remaining 110 passengers survived the incident.

A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Cells claimed responsibility, saying it was committed because of "American arrogance" and clashes with Libya in the Gulf of Sidra the week before. Investigators concluded that the bomb contained one pound of plastic explosive. It is suspected it had been placed under the seat cushion on a previous journey by a Lebanese woman (later arrested, never convicted) who worked for the Abu Nidal Organisation, which was opposed to the peace process. [http://www.tkb.org/Incident.jsp?incID=4542]

Victims, Deceased

*Maria Styllan Klug
*Demetra Klug (the infant)
*Alberto Ospina
*Demetra Stylianopoulos

ee also

* List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners