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    Trans World Airlines Flight 840 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to Cairo via New York City, Rome, and Athens on April 2, 1986. About...
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  • hijacking in 1969 TWA Flight 840 bombing, a bombing in 1986 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TWA Flight 840. If an internal...
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  • Flight 840 may refer to TWA Flight 840 hijacking, a hijacking in 1969 TWA Flight 840 bombing, a bombing in 1986 This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    TWA Flight 840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy, to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel...
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    the USS Stethem (DDG-63). In 1986, TWA Flight 840, on approach to Athens, Greece, was attacked with an on-board bomb, causing four Americans (including...
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  • return to the United States unharmed. August 29, 1969: TWA Flight 840 was a Trans World Airlines flight from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome...
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  • passengers) on board were killed. April 2, 1986: TWA Flight 840 was descending for landing when a bomb exploded, ejecting four passengers to their deaths...
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  • pocketknife to release oxygen masks that had not deployed during the TWA Flight 840 bombing. He died from COVID-19 in San Francisco, on December 20, 2020, aged...
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  • ever air disaster involving the Boeing 727. April 2 – TWA Flight 840, a Boeing 727, is bombed by Palestinian militants, killing four of the 121 people...
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    groups claimed responsibility for this crash, along with the bombing of TWA Flight 840, which occurred just two days later. An anonymous letter signed...
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  • PFLP for one Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon. The hijacking of TWA Flight 840 from Los Angeles to Damascus on 29 August 1969 by a PFLP cell led by...
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    El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on 23 July 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), setting...
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    the hydraulic system was shut off, and five were killed. August 29: TWA Flight 840 was hijacked by two PFLP members, Leila Khaled and Salim Issawai. No...
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  • have attacked European and American interests. It is suspected of bombing TWA Flight 840 in 1986. The exact relations between Fatah-SOG and the PLO leadership...
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  • France Flight 406 exploded and shattered into pieces when a bomb was smuggled inside its cargo on 10 May 1961, killing all 78 on board. TWA Flight 847,...
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    The El Al Flight 253 attack was a terrorist attack perpetrated by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) against a Boeing 707 passenger plane while...
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  • DC-4/C-54. The aircraft was operating for TWA on behalf of the USAAC's Air Transport Command. June 20, 1944 Flight 277, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, struck Fort...
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  • not resulted from a bomb should not be included on this list. Bombings of small light aircraft and air taxis and failed bombing plots may not be notable...
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  • injuries, although the room was wrecked. A bombing attempt at the Consulate the previous Friday failed when the bomb was discovered and detonated. These two...
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  • 707 plane and kill all the passengers. In August 1969, there was the TWA Flight 840 hijacking. In November 1969, two Arabs launched a grenade attack on...
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    El Al Flight 432 was a Boeing 720-058B (a shortened Boeing 707-120B) that was attacked by a squad of four armed Palestinian militants, members of the Lebanese-based...
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  • pilots to use sufficient braking and reverse thrust. April 2, 1986: TWA Flight 840 is bombed on the way to Athens, sucking out 4 on board. The plane landed...
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  • Liberation of Palestine bomb a Jerusalem supermarket; two Israelis are killed and twenty others are wounded. 29 August – TWA Flight 840 hijacking: A PFLP terrorist...
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  • Dorado Canyon. April 2, 1986: Four people were killed in the bombing of TWA Flight 840 over Corfu. April 17, 1986: British journalist John McCarthy was...
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    hostilities against the US resulted in the April 1983 United States Embassy bombing. In response, the US brokered the May 17 Agreement, in an attempt to stall...
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  • convey Foreign Minister Joseph Luns' message of shock and outrage over the bombing of the Israeli Embassy. The attackers were three adult Palestinians accompanied...
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  • court for the defense was Leila Khaled, known for the 1969 hijacking of TWA Flight 840, and currently a member of the Palestinian National Council. Prosecutors...
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  • of involvement in the 1969 Jerusalem bombings and Leila Khaled, part of a group responsible for the TWA Flight 840 hijacking. At a WOL demonstration on...
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    Watergate behind us. TWA Flight 841 crashed into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after takeoff from Athens toward Rome, after a terrorist bomb exploded in the cargo...
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  • Khaled and Salim Issawi, hijack Trans World Airlines Flight 840, a Boeing 707-331B on a flight from Rome, Italy, to Tel Aviv, Israel, with 127 people...
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