The information Posada provided the CIA while attempting to reestablish good relations with it included a tip that Cuban exiles were planning to blow up a Cuban airliner . Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana de Aviación flight departing from Barbados , via Trinidad , to Cuba . On October 6 , 1976 , two time bombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded , killing all 73 people on board , including all 25 members of the 1975 Cuban national fencing team
Cubana Flight 455
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
Luis Posada Carriles