Back يو تي إيه الرحلة 772 Arabic Vuelu 772 d'UTA AST Let UTA 772 Czech UTA-Flug 772 German Vuelo 772 de UTA Spanish UTA:n lento 772 Finnish Vol UTA 772 French Volo UTA 772 Italian UTA航空772便爆破事件 Japanese Voo UTA 772 Portuguese
 N54629, the aircraft involved in the bombing | |
| Incident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 19 September 1989 |
| Summary | In-flight breakup due to terrorist bombing |
| Site | Ténéré, Niger 16°51′54″N 11°57′13″E / 16.86493°N 11.953712°E |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 |
| Operator | Union des Transports Aériens (UTA) |
| IATA flight No. | UT772 |
| ICAO flight No. | UTA772 |
| Call sign | UTA 772 |
| Registration | N54629 |
| Flight origin | Maya-Maya Airport, Brazzaville, People's Republic of the Congo |
| Stopover | N'Djamena Int'l. Airport, N'Djamena, Chad |
| Destination | Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France |
| Occupants | 170 |
| Passengers | 156 |
| Crew | 14 |
| Fatalities | 170 |
| Survivors | 0 |
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France on 19 September 1989, which crashed into the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger, killing all 170 people on board after an in-flight explosion caused by a suitcase bomb. It is the deadliest aviation incident to occur in Niger.