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...maximum liability permitted under Warsaw Convention rules governing air travel. A finding of mechanical failure would open the way to much larger settlements, as would solid evidence of a bombing--if lawyers can then prove that TWA's security measures were lax. The 225 families that settled with Pan Am over the Lockerbie disaster, for example, collected some $500 million with such a claim. In this case, as in the Pan Am case, it is increasingly clear that any such resolution will be a long time coming...
...with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight was a Tin Pan Alley tune that had been written for pop songbird Kay Starr. The source of Cline's material hardly mattered. She made it all seem part of a thrilling emotional biography, drawing out a note until it was exhausted, then punctuating it with a catch in her throat that sounded like...
...Flight 800 case, federal points of inquiry already assume the existence of a crime. If there was a bomb, did it contain Semtex, a powerful Czech explosive used by Libyan agents in the Pan Am 103 bombing? Or a lower-grade nitroglycerine-nitrocellulose mix? And what evidence can be extrapolated from the existing clues to help answer these questions...
...PAN AM FLIGHT 103. Bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988; 270 killed...
...government officials almost from the beginning--that Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb or even a missile. During a Friday- afternoon news conference, Francis revealed that the NTSB was consulting with investigators of what proved to be bombings of an Air India jet in 1985 and of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 to see if the sounds on the TWA voice recorder match up with those recovered from the other two downed planes...