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LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 3, 1986
* TWA Flight 840 to Athens, Greece
* Plastic explosives bombing disaster
* Abu Nidal Organization - terrorists
The top of the front page has a two column headline: "Bomb Blast Kills 4 on TWA Flight" with subheads and related photo. (see images) More inside.
Complete 1st section only with all 36 pages, light toning along the central fold, nice condition.
background: On April 2, 1986, TWA Flight 840 was cruising toward Athens when a pound of plastic explosives—hidden beneath seat 10F—detonated, tearing a massive hole in the fuselage and creating a vacuum that sucked four American passengers, including an infant, to their deaths thousands of feet below. The bomb had been planted earlier that day by a passenger on the Cairo-to-Athens leg, exploiting lax security to leave the device behind for the subsequent flight crew and passengers. Despite the catastrophic decompression and a gaping 9-by-3-foot wound in the aircraft, Captain Richard Petersen performed a miraculous emergency landing, saving the remaining 117 people on board. The attack, attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization, served as a grim precursor to the heightened aviation security standards of the late 1980s and sparked a significant legal precedent regarding the "pre-impact terror" and pain suffered by victims of mid-air explosions.
April 03, 1986
LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 3, 1986
* TWA Flight 840 to Athens, Greece
* Plastic explosives bombing disaster
* Abu Nidal Organization - terrorists
The top of the front page has a two column headline: "Bomb Blast Kills 4 on TWA Flight" with subheads and related photo. (see images) More inside.
Complete 1st section only with all 36 pages, light toning along the central fold, nice condition.
background: On April 2, 1986, TWA Flight 840 was cruising toward Athens when a pound of plastic explosives—hidden beneath seat 10F—detonated, tearing a massive hole in the fuselage and creating a vacuum that sucked four American passengers, including an infant, to their deaths thousands of feet below. The bomb had been planted earlier that day by a passenger on the Cairo-to-Athens leg, exploiting lax security to leave the device behind for the subsequent flight crew and passengers. Despite the catastrophic decompression and a gaping 9-by-3-foot wound in the aircraft, Captain Richard Petersen performed a miraculous emergency landing, saving the remaining 117 people on board. The attack, attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization, served as a grim precursor to the heightened aviation security standards of the late 1980s and sparked a significant legal precedent regarding the "pre-impact terror" and pain suffered by victims of mid-air explosions.
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