Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455

1976 airliner bombing of a Cubana passenger flight

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash…