Incident Date:
February 28, 1987
Incident Successful:
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: Yes
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 3 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "02/28/1987: An Air Canada jet, en route Toronto-Vancouver, returned to Toronto shortly after take-off in light of a bomb threat that was made to an Air Canada office in Toronto. No bomb was found; however, several passengers were slightly injured in the emergency evacuation of the plane. A police source said a man made seven threatening calls to Air Canada that same day."
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. 446."
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