Airport Bombings
CIIM bombed the offices of South African Airways in Las Palmas on 3 January 1977, its first attack. CIIM terrorists bombed a florist shop in Las Palmas Airport on 27 March 1977, seriously injuring 8 people. Members then threatened to explode a second bomb in the airport, forcing police to shut down air traffic while they searched for the bomb. The sudden re-routing of all flights to the Los Rodeos Airport, in addition to various other factors, was blamed for the Tenerife airport disaster, the airplane accident with the highest number of fatalities to date, when two Boeing 747 airliners collided resulting in the death of 583 people.
In 1979 the CIIM (MPAIAC) made a formal declaration renouncing the "armed struggle".
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Famous quotes containing the word airport:
“It was like taking a beloved person to the airport and returning to an empty house. I miss the people. I miss the world.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)