Incident Date:
January 06, 1986
Incident Successful:
Location: Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
Perpetrators: Black September
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: Yes
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "01/06/1986: An Olympic Airways Boeing 747, en route from Athens to New York, was forced to land at Goose Bay military airfield in Labrador, Canada, following a bomb threat by a self-proclaimed spokesman of the Black September group. The Athens office of Olympic Airways received the threatening phone call while the plane was en route. At this time Abu Nidal/Black September group was trying to disrupt the Western tourist trade."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 438."
2) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume II 1984-1987. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 332-333."
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