Pan Am Flight 830

Pan Am Flight 830
	The aircraft involved (1983, one year after the incident)
Bombing
Date	August 11, 1982
Summary	Terrorist bombing
Site	Pacific Ocean, NW of Hawaii; 23°30′34″N 160°34′22″W / 23.5095°N 160.5728°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 747-121
Aircraft name	Clipper Ocean Rover
Operator	Pan American World Airways
Registration	N754PA
Flight origin	New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport)
Stopover	Honolulu International Airport
Destination	Los Angeles International Airport
Occupants	285
Passengers	270
Crew	15
Fatalities	1
Injuries	16
Survivors	284

Pan Am Flight 830 was a scheduled international flight from New Tokyo International Airport (now known as Narita International Airport) in Tokyo, Japan, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California via Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii. On August 11, 1982, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight, nicknamed Clipper Ocean Rover, was en route to Hawaii when the airplane was damaged by a bomb that had been placed on board. Despite the damage to the aircraft, Captain James E. "Skipper" O'Halloran III, of Spokane, Washington, First Officer Ray Schuller, and Engineer Neil H. Nordquist, of Novato, California were able to land in Honolulu safely. One person was killed while 284 survived; 16 of them were wounded.^[2]

Flight

At the time of the explosion, the aircraft was approximately 225 kilometers (140 mi; 121 nmi) northwest of Hawaii, cruising at 36,000 feet (11,000 m) with 270 passengers and 15 crew on board.^[3] The bomb, which had been placed under a seat cushion, killed 16 year-old Toru Ozawa, a Japanese national. The blast also injured 16 other people (including Ozawa's parents) and caused damage to the floor and ceiling. The aircraft remained airborne and made an emergency landing in Honolulu with no further loss of life.

Aftermath

The bomb was placed by Mohammed Rashed, a Jordanian linked to the 15 May Organization. After 4 years, in 1988, he was arrested in Greece, tried, convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was paroled in 1996 after serving eight years. He was later extradited to the US from Egypt in 1998 to stand trial. In 2006, as part of a plea bargain agreement he was sentenced to a further seven years in federal prison. As per his agreement with US prosecutors in providing information about other terrorist plots, he was released from prison in March 2013 but as of March 2014^[update] still remained in a federal immigration detention facility in upstate New York awaiting deportation.^[4] Rashed was relocated to Mauritania in November 2016.^[5]

Husayn Muhammad al-Umari was also indicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 830 and in 2009 was placed on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.^[6] On November 24, 2009, the Department of State announced a reward of up to $5 million for the capture of Abu Ibrahim^[who?], then about 73 years old. The previous reward of $200,000 had produced no results.^[7] As of March 2022^[update], he is still at large.^[6]

The aircraft was later put back in service by Pan American World Airways and remained in operation for various carriers until the early 1990s.^[8] It was scrapped in 2005.

References

^ "FAA Registry (N754PA)". Federal Aviation Administration.
^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747-121 N754PA Hawaii". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
^ "FBI investigates airplane explosion".
^ "1982 Pan Am bomber still in US immigration custody". The Times of Israel. March 6, 2014. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
^ "Palestinian plane bomber's post-prison home is Mauritania". Associated Press News. 28 November 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Husayn Muhammad al-Umari". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
^ "U.S. offers $5 million reward for 'Bomb Man'". NBC News. 24 November 2009.
^ "F-GIMJ Corsair Boeing 747-100". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved August 12, 2017.

External links

Criminal Occurrence description at the Aviation Safety Network
U.S. Department of Justice Jordanian Man Sentenced in 1982 Bombing Of Pan Am Flight From Tokyo To Honolulu
Airliners.Net 1981 picture of the "Clipper Ocean Rover"
AP Investigation: Terrorist eludes US in Iraq, by Adam Goldman and Randy Herschaft (Associated Press-Yahoo News; April 5, 2009) (Archive)

[1] "FAA Registry (N754PA)". Federal Aviation Administration.

[2] Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747-121 N754PA Hawaii". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2020-03-09.

[3] "FBI investigates airplane explosion".

[4] "1982 Pan Am bomber still in US immigration custody". The Times of Israel. March 6, 2014. Retrieved 2016-10-11.

[5] "Palestinian plane bomber's post-prison home is Mauritania". Associated Press News. 28 November 2016.

[FBI2022-6] "Husayn Muhammad al-Umari". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2022-03-26.

[7] "U.S. offers $5 million reward for 'Bomb Man'". NBC News. 24 November 2009.

[8] "F-GIMJ Corsair Boeing 747-100". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved August 12, 2017.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1980s
1980	Air Wisconsin Flight 965 (June 1980)
1981	Eastern Air Lines Flight 935 (September 1981)
1982	Air Florida Flight 90 (January 13 1982) Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash (January 18 1982) World Airways Flight 30 (January 23 1982) Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458 (February 1982) Pan Am Flight 759 (July 9 1982) Twilight Zone accident (July 23 1982) Pan Am Flight 830 (August 1982)
1983	United Airlines Flight 2885 (January 1983) Eastern Air Lines Flight 855 (May 1983) Air Canada Flight 797 (June 2 1983) Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 (June 8 1983) Air Illinois Flight 710 (October 1983) Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 (December 20 1983) Anchorage runway collision (December 23 1983)
1984	Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901 (February 1984) Vieques Air Link Flight 901A (August 2 1984)* San Luis Obispo mid-air collision (August 24 1984) Provincetown-Boston Airlines Flight 1039 (December 1984)
1985	Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 (January 1985) China Airlines Flight 006 (February 1985) Delta Air Lines Flight 191 (August 2 1985) Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 (August 25 1985) Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 (September 6 1985) Henson Airlines Flight 1517 (September 23 1985) Teterboro mid-air collision (November 1985) Death of Ricky Nelson (December 1985)
1986	Grand Canyon mid-air collision (June 1986) Aeroméxico Flight 498 (August 1986) Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident (November 1986)
1987	SkyWest Airlines Flight 1834 (January 1987) Northwest Airlink Flight 2268 (March 1987) American Eagle Flight 5452 (May 1987)* Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (August 1987) Indianapolis Ramada Inn A-7D Corsair II crash (October 1987) Continental Airlines Flight 1713 (November 1987) Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 (December 1987)
1988	Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 (January 1988) American Airlines Flight 132 (February 3 1988) AVAir Flight 3378 (February 19 1988) Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (April 1988) TACA Flight 110 (May 1988) Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 (August 1988)
1989	United Airlines Flight 811 (February 1989) Evergreen International Airlines Flight 17 (March 1989) United Airlines Flight 232 (July 1989) USAir Flight 5050 (September 1989) KLM Flight 867 (December 15 1989) United Express Flight 2415 (December 26 1989)
This list is incomplete. An asterisk (*) denotes an incident that took place in a U.S. territory.

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