Families of 66 passengers and crew killed on board the British European Airways flight are still seeking answers 57 years after the plane exploded.
The wound of the disaster has not healed for the victims’ families Their quest for justice has not been made any easier by mysterious classified documents, sealed away from the public by the Home Office until 2067. Families have been seeking answers to this day since the explosion on October 12, 1967, after a bombing of the British European Airways CY284 on its way from Athens, Greece, to Nicosia in Cyprus.
At first, investigators thought the jet had collided with another aircraft. However, investigators discovered military-grade plastic explosive material in one of the Comet’s passenger seats floating in the sea, according to publicly available records. Who was the target of the bombing? The short answer is, no one knows for sure as some of the files remain sealed off.
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