The Bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455

Content Warning: This episode discusses a plane crash as well as injuries and death associated with it.

In the mid 1970’s, the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere took place. As such, the 1976 bombing of Cubana Airline 455 which resulted in the killing of 73 persons, became one of the most devastating terrorist attack in Caribbean history. 

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

• Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Fidel Castro Denounces Aggressions Against Cuba by Fidel Castro

• Old Myths, New Fantasies and the Enduring Realities of Terrorism by Michael Stohl

ARTICLES

• CARICOM & Cuba Commemorate Aircraft Tragedy

• New York Times: Luis Posada Carriles, Who Waged Quest to Oust Castro, Dies at 90

DOCUMENTARIES

• Cubana 455: Chronicles of October 6 directed by Enrique Berumen