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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.
In the same weekend, Kaczynski mailed a bomb to David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale University. Gelernter lost sight in one eye, hearing in one ear, and a portion of his right hand. [67] In 1994, Burson-Marsteller executive Thomas J. Mosser was killed after opening a mail bomb sent to his home in New Jersey.
Ted Kaczynski, a Harvard-educated mathematician, railed against technology in his writings and planted homemade pipe bombs — targeting universities, an American Airlines flight and others ...
1978 to 1995: Theodore Kaczynski, the "UNAbomber", killed three and injured 23 in a series of mail bombings in the United States. [ 18 ] August 27, 1980: Lyda Monteiro da Silva , secretary of Brazilian Bar Association , was killed by a letter bomb sent by anti-communist army members against the end of military dictatorship in Brazil .
Ted Kaczynski cups a hand to his ear during an interview in a visiting room at ADX, a federal prison in Florence, Colo., Aug. 30, 1999. ... Kaczynski sent mail bombs around the country that killed ...
Kaczynski planted deadly bombs to draw attention to his theories. He became one of the most feared individuals in the U.S. by the time of his capture. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who eluded ...
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.
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 ...