Avianca Airlines Flight 203 was a Boeing 727 that was destroyed by a bomb over Colombia on November 27, 1989. Avianca is an airline based in Bogotá, Colombia. ... Sun Country 727 The Boeing 727 was, for a very long time, the most popular jet-liner in the world. ... Massive ordinance air-burst bomb. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The aircraft took off from Bogotá, the Colombian capital, en route to Cali. It was in the air five minutes when an explosive charge detonated on board, igniting fuel vapors in an empty fuel tank: The blast ripped the airliner apart. All 107 people on the aircraft were killed, as well as 3 people on the ground when debris rained down. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The bombing of Flight 203 was the worst single criminal attack in the many decades of Colombian violence. The Medellín drug cartel claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, saying it was targeting Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, the leading candidate in the presidential elections, although he was not on the plane. Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera, the chief assassin for the Medellín Cartel, was convicted in US District Court for the bombing and he was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences. The Medellín Cartel was a well-organized but very loose network of drug smugglers originating in the city of Medellín in Colombia and operating through the 1970s and 1980s. ... C sar Gaviria Trujillo (born March 31, 1947) is a Colombian politician. ... Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera was the cheif assasin for the Medellin Cartel of Colombia He was responsible for the deaths of an unknown amount of people although estimates range in the hundreds. ...