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This plane crash takes us to the west African nation of Niger, which is located next to the following countries: Libya, Chad, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Algeria and Nigeria.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE BOMBING AND A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.
UTA Flight 772, registered as November 54629 in the United States (N54629), was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA), it was operating a flight from Maya-Maya Airport (IATA: BZV, ICAO: FCBB), Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo, via a stopover at N'Djamena International Airport (IATA: NDJ, ICAO: FTTJ), N'Djamena, Chad and it's destination was Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), Paris, France, that crashed into the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger on the 19th of September 1989, with the loss of all 170 people on board, after an in flight explosion caused by a suitcase bomb, it's the deadliest aviation incident to occur in Niger.
On Tuesday, the 19th of September 1983, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (it was the 125th one to be produced) aircraft took off from N'Djamena International Airport at 13:13pm local time, forty six minutes later, at it's cruising altitude of 35,100 feet, a suitcase bomb exploded in the cargo hold, causing UTA Flight 772 to break up over the Sahara desert 450 kilometres east of Adadez in the southern Ténéré of Niger, the explosion scattered debris over hundreds of square miles of desert, killing all 170 people on board the plane.
