Oplan Bojinka Revisited: THE PLOT AND ITS LEGACY

摘要

The fact that Haruki Ikegami probably died immediately was of little consolation. The explosion from under his seat on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 from Cebu to Tokyo also injured another ten passengers. That the device did not detonate the main fuel tank was a slight stroke of luck due to a minor modification to the Boeing 747-283B. Investigators later determined the device, planted by Ramzi Yousef, was only one-tenth of the size of the devices he later planned to place on 11 US-bound airliners throughout the Pacific region. The al-Qaeda organisation was preparing a strike against civil aviation, the likes of which had not been seen before.