TWA Flight 847 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines flight from Cairo to San Diego with en route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles...
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The Twa (also Cwa, OvaTwa or Batwa—plural, and OmuTwa or Mutwa—singular) are a group of indigenous Central African foragers tribes. These cultural groups...
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Trans World Airlines (redirect from TWA)
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was...
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List of aircraft hijackings (redirect from TWA Flight 85)
custodial staff. June 14, 1985: Lebanese Shi'a Amal hijackers diverted TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Beirut with 153 people on board. The stand-off ended...
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linked Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah to the hijackings. On 14 June 1985, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked en route from Athens to Rome. One of the demands of the...
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sound. The successive stages of pronunciation for the Old English twā would thus be /twɑː/, /twɔː/, /twoː/, /twuː/, and finally /tuː/. An integer is determined...
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made-for-television movies—one of these was The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988), based on a TWA hijacking in 1985. It picked up five Emmy nominations...
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2021. "Chronology, 16 February-15 May 1996". Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Summer, 1996), p.179. JSTOR 2538022. Retrieved 19 May 2021. Fisk...
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[citation needed] The lower trailing wire antenna (TWA) area contains the aircraft's 5-mile-long (8.0 km) TWA reel—which is used by up to 13 communications...
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has set the permissible exposure limit (PEL) to a time-weighted average (TWA) of 0.01 mg/m3 (0.01 ppb), and the National Institute for Occupational Safety...
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act". TWA flight attendant Uli Derickson who protected passengers during the TWA Flight 847 hijacking by assisting with negotiation efforts. TWA Flight...
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on IDF troops and SLA militiamen in southern Lebanon. Hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985. The Lebanon hostage crisis from 1982 to 1992. Since 1990, terror...
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exchange for the return of 39 foreign passengers from the hijacking of TWA flight 847. Israel denies a connection. On September 12, 1991, the body of IDF...
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Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Robert Stethem, killed during TWA Flight 847 hijacking, namesake of USS Stethem James Stockdale, Navy vice admiral...
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Iran Air, Olympic Airways, Qantas, CAAC Airlines, Middle East Airlines, and TWA. Concorde sold very poorly due to several factors. Costs spiralled to more...
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permissible exposure limit (PEL) in the workplace as a time-weighted average (TWA) of 0.1 mg/m3. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...
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original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2012. Bugliosi 2007, p. 847. "A Primer of Assassination Theories: The Whole Spectrum of Doubt, from the...
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deployed off the Lebanese coast in response to the terrorist hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the dispersal of some hostages around Beirut. During the Gulf War...
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Mowles, 'The Israeli Occupation of South Lebanon,' Third World Quarterly Vol. 8, No. 4 October 1986, pp. 1351-1366 p.1361. Ihsan A. Hijazi, 'Blast in...
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film The Delta Force, Norris said – in response to the hijacking of TWA flight 847 – that United States is becoming a "paper tiger" in the Middle East...
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NALP3 inflammasome through phagosomal destabilization". Nat. Immunol. 9 (8): 847–856. doi:10.1038/ni.1631. PMC 2834784. PMID 18604214. Merchant JA, ed. (1986)...
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Organization disbands. 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. 1986 – The U.S. Supreme...
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Research Recommendations". American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 57 (7): 847–856. doi:10.1002/ajim.22316. ISSN 0271-3586. PMC 4469339. PMID 24634090....
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permissible exposure limit (PEL) in the workplace as a time-weighted average (TWA) of 1 mg/m3. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)...
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that year, Seabee diver Robert Dean Stethem was killed by hijackers on TWA Flight 847 at Beirut. The Navy named USS Stethem DDG-63 in his honor. In the 1980s...
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Nichols, Monte C., eds. (2003). "Chalcocyanite" (PDF). Handbook of Mineralogy. Vol. V. Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates. Chantilly, VA, US: Mineralogical Society...
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Six or seven Lebanese men (including Hassan Izz-Al-Din, a veteran of the TWA 847 hijacking) armed with guns and hand grenades forced the pilot to land in...
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ordered to operate off the coast of Lebanon due to the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. The carrier and squadron remained on station until the release of the...
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988) – drama television film based on the actual hijacking of TWA Flight 847 as seen through the eyes...
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Mohammad-Javad (1933–1981)". Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-61069-286-1. Although the Bahonar-Rajai assassination...
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