A bomb explodes on board <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Airlines_Flight_438" id="mwAoM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Middle East Airlines Flight 438">Middle East Airlines Flight 438</a> over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaisumah" id="mwAoQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Qaisumah">Qaisumah</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" id="mwAoU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, killing all 81 people on board.<sup about="#mwt402" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-78"}}' id="cite_ref-78" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-78" id="mwAoY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 78;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAoc">[78]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-78"><cite about="#mwt399" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFRanter">Ranter, Harro. <a class="external text" href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760101-1" id="mwD6Y" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 720-023B OD-AFT Al Qaysumah"</a>. <i id="mwD6c">aviation-safety.net</i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210604201811/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760101-1" id="mwD6g" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-06-04<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwD6k">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwD6o">2019-12-31</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt399" class="Z3988" id="mwD6s" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=aviation-safety.net&amp;rft.atitle=ASN+Aircraft+accident+Boeing+720-023B+OD-AFT+Al+Qaysumah&amp;rft.aulast=Ranter&amp;rft.aufirst=Harro&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Faviation-safety.net%2Fdatabase%2Frecord.php%3Fid%3D19760101-1&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>