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...every item swiped from a plane, there's an eager collector waiting to bid for it. Each day on eBay, travel memorabilia swap hands - from TWA napkins of the 1970s to a large array of Concorde crockery and pepper pots. Judging by the amount of stuff available from the retired supersonic service, it's a wonder that British Airways didn't terminate it sooner due to a lack of cups and plates. Travel is an area of collecting that can involve large sums of money (a Concorde nose cone was sold at auction for $550,000 to a U.S.-based...
...Hizballah is certainly a menacing terrorist group with a known track record of brutal attacks all over the world. The organization's American victims in Lebanon range from Navy diver Robert Stethem - his murdered body was thrown out the window of a TWA airliner in a 1985 hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach...
...TWA 800 exploded at 13,700 feet in calm weather. It would have taken a huge bomb to bring that plane down, and the larger the bomb, the more difficult it is to smuggle onto a plane,” Kreindler told the Harvard Law Bulletin...
...Nidal formally broke with Arafat, protesting his old comrade's decision to consider diplomacy over violence. That year, the newly formed Abu Nidal Organization (also known as Fatah Revolutionary Council) planted a bomb on a TWA plane flying from Athens to Rome, killing all 88 people on board. Abu Nidal went on to mastermind attacks on a Jewish school in Antwerp, synagogues in Vienna and Istanbul, and a Greek tourist ship. In December 1985 his group ambushed the El Al ticket counters at Rome and Vienna airports, killing 14 bystanders...
...born in New York in 1982 and my parents moved to England eight months later. I don’t remember the flight myself, but apparently the TWA passengers who were treated to my best Frankie Valli impression for seven hours across the Atlantic have never forgotten it. Our sojourn in London was only meant to last 18 months, but we’re still there almost 20 years later. I guess my parents liked it. And, to this day, anyone who casually meets me will think that I am as English as mushy vegetables and sexual repression...