1974 British Airways bombing attempt
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident similar to the aircraft involved | |
| Incident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 23 July 1974 |
| 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, England |
| 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. 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.