UTA Flight 772 memorial
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7 M- d: s0 x" p4 j; [: vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbFlight 772 from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Chad to Paris went down in Niger on Sept. 19, 1989, after a briefcase bomb planted by Libyan terrorists was detonated.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb6 y9 n+ w' L$ O7 ^% K
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The cabin of the UTA DC 10 flight 772 lays on the Tenere desert after the passenger plane exploded on September 19, 1989, killing all 171 people aboard.
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The memorial was created in 2007 by an association dedicated to the crash victim's families. It features a DC10 airplane, the model that went down, in black rock inside the compass pointed in the direction of its intended flight path. |