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My dad died when I was 2 years old. All I remember about that time was seeing just a shoe inside his coffin. No body. Why? Because he died in a plane crash. Here are the details when I googled it...

[FROM WIKIPEDIA]

Philippine Airlines Flight 215 was the route designator for a Philippine Airlines flight from Cauayan Airport to Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport which exploded en route to Manila.

Accident

On October 21, 1970, Philippine Airlines Flight 215 was en route from Cauayan Airport to Manila Airport when, at 10,500 ft, an explosion occurred in the aircraft's lavatory, the tail section separated from the aircraft and the aircraft crashed.

All 32 passengers and 4 crew (36 in total) were killed in the incident. A bomb in the lavatory was the suspected cause of the incident.

[FROM http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700421-0]

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Status:
Date:	21 APR 1970
Type:	Hawker Siddeley HS-748-209 Srs. 2
Operator:	Philippine Air Lines
Registration:	PI-C1022
C/n / msn:	1643
First flight:	1968
Crew:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers:	Fatalities: 32 / Occupants: 32
Total:	Fatalities: 36 / Occupants: 36
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	near Cabanatuan (Philippines)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Cauayan Airport (CYZ) (CYZ/RPUY), Philippines
Destination airport:	Manila Airport (MNL) (MNL/RPLL), Philippines

Narrative:
The plane was en route from Cauayan to Manila at 10500 feet when an explosion occurred in the lavatory. The tail section separated and the aircraft crashed.

[FROM http://www.airsafe.com/events/airlines/pal.htm]

Fatal Events Since 1970 for
Philippine Air Lines

The following events are those involving at least one passenger death where the aircraft flight had a direct or indirect role. Excluded would be events where the only passengers killed were stowaways, hijackers, or saboteurs.

21 April 1970; Philippine Air Lines BAe 748; near Manila Philippines: The aircraft broke up in flight at cruise after an onboard explosion. A bomb in the lavatory was suspected. All four crew members and 32 passengers were killed.

[FROM http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0283.shtml]

Commercial Airliner Bombings

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How dangerous would a bomb be to a commercial airliner? Have many airliners been attacked before?
- question from Kenji Patel

This question is particularly appropriate in the wake of 10 August 2006 when several terrorist suspects were arrested because of a plot to sneak explosives aboard commercial airliners. These individuals arrested in the United Kingdom and Pakistan planned to carry seemingly harmless household chemicals and liquids in their carry-on luggage and mix them aboard the plane to create small bombs. The bombs would have been powerful enough to create an explosive decompression aboard an aircraft causing the plane to disintegrate while flying at high altitude over the ocean. The suicide bombers reportedly planned to target nine commercial airliners and would have likely killed between 2,500 and 5,000 people if successful.

Bombings aboard commercial airliners are unfortunately nothing new. These attacks have plagued airline travel almost since its beginning. While most of the early bombings were suicide attempts or schemes for insurance money, terrorism became a dominant motive for increasingly deadly attacks since the 1960s. The following list describes a whopping 86 cases related to airliner bombings, 53 of them resulting in deaths.

21 April 1970 - Philippine Air Lines
A Hawker Siddeley HS-748 crashed near Manila, Philippines, after a bomb exploded in the aft cargo hold. The crash killed all 36 passengers and crew.

So if the plane was bombed, why was it bombed? According to my mom, a passenger from that plane was going to Manila to tell congress about illegal logging at Isabela at that time. Her "matter-of-fact-without-battling-an-eyelash" "conspiracy theory" is that the masterminds were the then governor of Isabela and the then president of the country. Guess who. It's easy.