Fatal Attack

1996 Boeing 757 enroute from Porta Plata, 12 miles off the north coast, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

📋 Table of Contents

📊 Attack Details
🦈 Species Information
🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact
🔗 Related Attacks

📊 Attack Details

📅 Date & Time

1996

⏰ Time unknown

📍 Location

Boeing 757 enroute from Porta Plata, 12 miles off the north coast, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

🌍 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

🏊 Activity

Other

⚕️ Outcome

Bite

🔴 Fatal

👤 Victim Details

Age: Unknown

Gender: Unknown

🏷️ Attack Type

Sea Disaster

🩹 Injury Details

106 bodies were recovered, some had been bitten by sharks

🦈 Species Information

Unknown species

4973 documented attacks in our database involved an unknown species.

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🧠 Shark Myth vs. Fact

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All sharks are dangerous to humans.

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Sharks are colorblind.

Sharks have no bones.

Sharks are older than dinosaurs.