Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 was a scheduled international flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles with stopovers in Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlán. On March 31, 1986, the aircraft serving the route,
A Mexicana Boeing 727, similar to the one involved
The crash occurred in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range
TWA Flight 840 (1986)
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Trans World Airlines Flight 840 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Cairo via New York City, Rome, and Athens on April 2, 1986. About 20 minutes before landing in Athens
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940
…940 had been brought down by on-board explosives. Coincidentally, two days after the crash of Flight 940, a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 727-200 was bombed by the Abu Nidal Organization, the same group that had claimed responsibility for the Mexicana crash. In response to the TWA bombing and the alleged…
The aircraft involved in the incident, seen in 1997