Alas Chiricanas Flight 901

Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, registered HP-1202AC, was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft flying en route from Colón city to Panama City which exploded shortly after departing Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport, on the night of July 19, 1994. All 21 on board, including 12 Jews, were killed in the bombing.[1] Both Panamanian and American authorities consider the bombing an unsolved crime and an act of terrorism.

Alas Chiricanas Flight 901
An Embraer EMB 110 similar to the accident aircraft
Bombing
DateJuly 19, 1994
SummaryIn-flight explosion by bombing, unsolved crash
Sitenear Colón, Panama
Aircraft
Aircraft typeEmbraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
OperatorAlas Chiricanas
RegistrationHP-1202AC
Flight originEnrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport
Colón, Panama
DestinationTocumen International Airport
Panama City, Panama
Passengers18
Crew3
Fatalities21

The wreckage of the Bandeirante was strewn about the Santa Rita Mountains near Colón. Panamanian investigators quickly determined that the explosion had been caused by a bomb, probably detonated by a suicide bomber aboard the aircraft. Only one body was not claimed by relatives; this body is believed to be that of a man named Jamal Lya.[2] Officials suspected that the incident was an act of terrorism by Hezbollah directed against Jews in part because it took place one day after the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, and due to an expression of support by "Ansar Allah", a Hezbollah affiliate in South America.[3][4]

In 2018, the President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela said "recent evidence" and intelligence reports "clearly show it was a terrorist attack," and that he would ask local and international authorities to reopen the investigation. The FBI have in its investigations identified the perpetrator to have been a passenger named Ali Hawa Jamal.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Panama 1994 plane crash a 'terror' attack". BBC News. 2018-05-22. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  2. "Seeking Information" page for Jamal Lya from the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  3. "Palestinian Jihadist group splits from Hezbollah". Jerusalem Post. December 6, 2012.
  4. Andrew R. Thomas; Sebastian Vaduva (2014). Global Supply Chain Security: Emerging Topics in Research, Practice and Policy. Springer. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4939-2178-2.
  5. "Panama says new evidence shows 1994 plane crash 'terrorist' incident". BBC News. 22 May 2018.

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