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Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z bombing

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Flight
Aftermath
References

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|name=Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z
|occurrence_type=Bombing
|image=Convair CV-880, Viasa JP7356668.jpg
|caption=The aircraft destroyed in the bombing in 1961, while still in service with Viasa
|date=15 June 1972
|type = Aviation bombing
|site=Over Pleiku, South Vietnam
|aircraft_type=Convair CV-880-22M-21
|operator=Cathay Pacific
|tail_number=VR-HFZ
|origin=Singapore International Airport^[1]
Singapore
|stopover = Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok
Thailand
|destination=Kai Tak Airport
Hong Kong
|passengers=71
|crew=10
|fatalities=81
|survivors=0
}}

Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z was a flight flown and operated by Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific that crashed on 15 June 1972.

Flight

Flight 700Z originated from Singapore International Airport^[1] (Now Paya Lebar Air Base) and had a stopover at Bangkok's Don Mueang International Airport, with the final destination being Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport.

While flying at {{convert|29000|ft|m|abbr=on}} (FL290) over Pleiku, South Vietnam, a bomb placed inside a cosmetics case placed under a seat exploded, resulting in the aircraft's disintegration. All 71 passengers and 10 crew on the flight were killed.

Aftermath

Following a UK Civil Aviation Authority and Hong Kong police investigation, as well as six years of reporting by a Bangkok Post journalist,{{r|McBeth}} "a police officer whose fiancée and daughter were aboard was charged with the crime".^[2] Somchai Chaiyasut, who had taken out three travel insurance policies on his fiancée and daughter, was declared not guilty due to lack of evidence.^[3] He sued the insurance companies and received 5.5 million baht but died of cancer in 1985 after "airline staff and relatives [had considered] hiring a hitman to kill him".^[4]

References

1. ^¹Some sources state the flight's origin as Changi Airport, but since Changi Airport opened in 1981, this is not possible. Singapore's international airport at the time is now the Paya Lebar Air Base.
2. ^{{ASN accident|id=19720615-1|type=Criminal Occurrence}}
3. ^Accident synopsis at airdisaster.com {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424051303/http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_details.cgi?date=06151972®=VR-HFZ&airline=Cathay+Pacific+Airways |date=24 April 2008 }}{{DL|date=August 2018}}
4. ^{{Citation|author=McBeth, J.|title=Reporter. Forty Years Covering Asia |publisher=Talisman Publishing, Singapore |year=2011| isbn=9789810873646 |page=34.}}

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