Word: twa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Before the Boeing TWA aircraft left for Kennedy airport, it was parked in Pit No. 22, where a team of some 15 maintenance experts inspected it," said Dionyssios Kalofonos, director of the Greek Civil Aviation Authority. "The plane was not left unattended for a minute." Furthermore, insisted Evangelos Markoulis, spokesman for the Public Order Ministry, "to be precise, a time-bomb device has 12 hours minus one minute to blow up. Therefore, if such a mechanism had been planted on board the aircraft, it would have gone off after it landed at Kennedy." A direct flight to New York from...
...Greeks have indeed fixed their airport problem, how then could a bomb have been put aboard the TWA jet? A terrorist could have flown from Athens to New York and tried to leave a bag with the bomb inside on the plane as he prepared to disembark. But the TWA airliner would have been swept of all bags in the luggage compartments and underneath passenger seats before the Paris-bound passengers were boarded and their luggage loaded onto the aircraft. On the New York-Paris leg, no bag would have been allowed aboard the plane without its passenger on board...
...investigating some 50 people--maintenance workers, food handlers and members of cleaning crews--who were in or near the TWA jet during its New York layover to see if any one of them could have planted a device. FBI agents will also begin screening any cargo shippers that may have sent boxes on the plane...
...counterterrorism officials are investigating whether such a scenario might have been played out on the TWA flight. The terrorist could have boarded the airliner in Athens with the unassembled bomb parts in a carry-on bag. At J.F.K., where maintenance and cleaning crews had only three hours to service the plane, all the baggage would have been cleared from the luggage compartments and underneath the seats. But crews probably would not have checked underneath all the seat cushions or opened up panels in the bathroom...
...Malta Flight KM-190 routed to Frankfurt, whence it eventually was loaded onto Pan Am Flight 103. It was detonated by a simple timing device. Libya has been under U.N. economic sanctions since April 1992. Last week Thurman was on the scene in Long Island as parts of the TWA plane were dragged out of the surf. He and his lab team will conduct microscopic examinations of pieces of the plane's skin and infrastructure, looking for metal damage characteristic of a powerful bomb blast. "An explosion generates temperatures and velocities of detonation that are far greater than those encountered...