Terrorist Attack Killed 170 People Over African Desert
A federal judge has ordered the Government of Libya and six of
its officials to pay a total of approximately $6 billion in damages
arising from the mid-air suitcase bombing of a French-operated UTA
Flight 772, DC-10 wide-body jet. The 1989 attack killed 170 people
from Europe, Africa and the United States and was one of the
deadliest terrorist events in commercial aviation history before
September 11, 2001. It came only nine months after a similar
suitcase bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
which killed 270 people.