The anonymous party demanded $2 million, to be tucked into duffel bags in JFK airport lockers, or else four TWA planes would blow up soon.

The TWA plane was American, as was the murder victim.

Both aircraft crash, killing all 13 people aboard the TWA plane and both people on the DC-3.

Injuries to passengers aboard the TWA plane, Flight 427 to Denver, were minor, Ms. Campbell said.

At that time, the Federal Aviation Administration and other experts believed that the TWA plane had been brought down by a bomb.

From there the plane was accompanied by a larger TWA plane which guided it to Reykjavík, Iceland.

At the moment, the Calverton site is being used to reconstruct the TWA plane that crashed off Long Island in the summer of 1996.

A thousand miles from the misery, a sign outside an old stone church reminds neighbors: "Pray for the families of the TWA plane crash victims."

A CAA spokesman said that radio messages from the TWA plane shortly after takeoff indicated the pilot was "alarmed and excited".

And arcing can cause a fire or detonate fuel vapors, which may be what happened to the TWA plane.