Four killed as bomb rips TWA plane on way to Athens 30 years ago this hour (Apr 2 1986)

1980s


Video: '1985 TWA Flight 847 Hijacking And 1986 TWA Flight 840 Bombing' (Apr. 2, 1986, at 5:43)

(Wednesday, April 2, 1986, just before 2:30 p.m. local time) — Four American passengers, including an 8-month-old girl, her mother and grandmother, were killed today when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.