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American Airlines Flight 444 was a scheduled American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.'s National Airport.On November 15, 1979, the Boeing 727 serving the flight was attacked by Ted Kaczynski (also known as the Unabomber), who sent a pipe bomb in the mail and set it to detonate at a certain altitude.
The moniker "Unabomber" was also applied to the Italian Unabomber, a terrorist who conducted attacks similar to Kaczynski's in Italy from 1994 to 2006. [165] Prior to the 1996 United States presidential election , a campaign called " Unabomber for President " was launched with the goal of electing Kaczynski as president through write-in votes.
He pleaded guilty to setting 16 explosions that killed three people and injured 23 others in various parts of the country between 1978 and 1995. Show comments Advertisement
But in 1996, after 18 years of a frightening, slow-motion rampage that killed three people and injured 23 more, Kaczynski was finally arrested — betrayed not by his bombs but by his own words.
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Prima donna of comic opera who shot and killed a set designer and then shot herself [5] 4: Pacific Air Lines Flight 773: Contra Costa County: 1964-05-07: 44: Pilot of airliner shot during flight causing plane to crash [6] 5: 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack: Orcutt: 1965-04-25: 4: 16-year-old youth opened fire on cars traveling along the 101 ...
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 ...
Percy Addison Wood Jr. (June 7, 1920 – June 23, 2008) [1] was a United Airlines executive who was notably injured by a bomb sent from Ted Kaczynski.Wood was injured June 10, 1980, in the fourth explosion attributed to the Unabomber, and suffered burns and cuts over much of his body when he opened a package left in the mailbox of his Lake Forest, Illinois, home.