1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing


Damage to the Trans World Airlines terminal

Location: Queens, New York City
Coordinates: 40°46'28"N 73°52'17"W
Date: December 29, 1975; 6:33 pm (local time)
Deaths: 11
Injured: 74
Perpetrators: Unidentified
Motive: Unknown

On December 29, 1975, a bomb was detonated near the TWA baggage reclaim terminal at LaGuardia Airport, New York City. The blast killed 11 people and seriously injured 74. The perpetrators were never identified. The attack occurred during a four-year period of heightened terrorist attacks within the United States. 1975 was especially volatile, with bombings in New York City and Washington D.C. early that year and two assassination attempts on US President Gerald Ford.

The LaGuardia Airport bomb, at the time, was the single most deadly attack by a non-state actor to occur on American soil since the Bath School bombings, which killed 44 people in 1927. It was the deadliest attack in New York City since the Wall Street bombing of 1920, which killed 38, until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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On December 29, 1975, a massive bomb, equivalent to 25 sticks of dynamite, exploded in the baggage-claim area of LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 & injuring 75. The bombing officially remains unsolved.

Until the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing was the deadliest attack in New York City since the Wall Street bombing of 1920, which killed 38