According to news reports in
2001-
2002, Bojinka was the
code-name of a
plot by
Islamist terrorists to blow up a number of
US-based
airliners fllying out of
Asia in
1995. The plot is said to have been organized beginning in
1993 by
Ramzi Yousef, an important
al-Qaeda operative. It was foiled by
Philippine security, although while testing his
explosives Yousef is said to have set off two explosions in Philippine
movie theatres and one aboard a flying plane (
killing one person but not destroying the plane).
The name bojinka is said to be Serbo-Croat for "explosion", although I haven't been able to confirm this using on-line dictionaries.