Philippine Airlines Flight 434 (PAL434, PR434) was the route designator of a flight from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Pasay City, the Philippines, to New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), Narita near Tokyo, Japan, with one stop at Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Cebu, the Philippines.

On December 11, 1994 the Boeing 747-283B, tail number EI-BWF, was flying on the second leg of the route, from Cebu to Tokyo, when a bomb planted by terrorist Ramzi Yousef exploded killing one passenger. It was a part of the unsuccessful Bojinka terrorist attacks. The captain of the flight, an experienced veteran pilot, landed the aircraft saving the plane and all the remaining passengers and crew.

Authorities later discovered that a passenger on the aircraft's preceding leg was Ramzi Yousef. He was later convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Yousef boarded the flight under the fake Italian name "Armaldo Forlani", a wrong spelling of the name of the Italian legislator Arnaldo Forlani.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434


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