Talk:TWA Flight 847

message: A third intended hijacker, Ali Atwa, had been bumped from the flight and was later arrested in Greece.
Is bumped a proper term? It confused me. What would be a better word? Wright123 16:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bumped is definitely American airline jargon for being reticketed for a later flight because of overbooking. If there's a better "international" term, perhaps we could use that. --Dhartung | Talk 04:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a British English source, although they seem to be treating the term as novel to their audience. Here the term "overbooked" is used as a transitive verb. (Americans would say that a flight was overbooked, not that the airline overbooked them.) --Dhartung | Talk 04:56, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Bumped"

message: The attackers were Lebanese were connected to Hezbollah.  According to the article they were not Palestinian.  Thus the category 
:Category:Palestinian terrorist incidents in Europe is inappropriate.  --Abnn 04:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  inappropriate category 

message: The plane landed in Algiers, the first time, without notice. The reports do not say whether the first landing there was on Friday, June 14, 1985 but (1) in 1985 the Algerian weekend was Thursday-Friday and (2) on the day of the landing the U.S. Embassy was closed, with only Ambassador Michael Newlin and the Embassy Duty Officer available. TWA had no office nor any representative in Algeria, and did not have the capacity to issue new travel documents to so many people. In both cases the released passengers were lodged at the El Aurassi Hotel until a chartered Air France jet could arrive and take them to Paris for processing. Andygx (talk) 08:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algiers 

message: I was living in Kansas City when the plane was returned there to the TWA maintenance facility. They made a big deal about it in the local media. Pictures showing bullet holes clearly visible in the tail. I remember asking some of my TWA friends how they got the plane out. The only information I got was something like it was very hush hush and couldn't be talked about. There were rumors a crew was smuggled in and "stole" the airplane from Beirut. I haven't been able to confirm any of this or any info on who this crew was. Anyone have any info on this?
Incidentally this is the same plane that in the late 70's wore an experimental paint scheme called the silver bullet. The airline had this one plane stripped of its paint down to a bare silver polish with minimal logos and lettering applied to save weight. They decided the expense of maintaining the silver polish was more then they saved in fuel consumption with the slightly reduced weight.
This plane also flew the final revenue TWA 727 flight on September 30, 2000. 
Skywayman 13:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  N64339 fate 

message: Unless I am mistaken, this article does not provide any information regarding the fate of the hijackers after the hostages were freed and the plane returned to their rightful owners...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Klodaway (talk • contribs) 14:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fate of the hijackers 

message: This article lacks any detail of the United States response to the hijacking, it lacks any information on the abortive plan by SFOD-Delta who flew to the Mediterranean. In Eric L.Haney's book Inside Delta Force he briefly refers to the aborted mission and more specifically details SFOD-Delta's many operations in Beirut  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.136.74 (talk) 21:46, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Military Response 

message: According to several sources the Amal Movement where behind this hijack. --Ezzex (talk) 02:18, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amal Movement ? 

message: After waiting for more than a week, I have removed the uncited bullet points from the the aforementioned section. I've included them below, so that reference work may proceed.
:::References in popular culture 
:::* The 1986 film The Delta Force was loosely based on this event.
:::* The 1988 made-for-TV film The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story was directly based on this event.
:::* The Nitzer Ebb song "T.W.A." (from the 1988 album Belief) appears to be inspired by this event, as it contains samples of someone saying "TWA flight 847" and "We must land at Beirut."
:::* The Zoviet France song "They're Eating the Passengers" (from the 1986 album Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals) extensively samples a recording of the radio conversation between Captain Testrake and air traffic controllers during the second stop in Beirut, in which one of the hijackers can also be heard. The most prominent excerpts have Testrake saying that the hijackers were beating and threatening to kill the passengers, and another man (presumably co-pilot Maresca) reporting that a hijacker said that he would "kill an American that he has tied up in the cockpit" if the plane wasn't refueled in three minutes. Parts of the recording are also cut backwards into two of the audio collage tracks entitled "Signal" on the same album.
:::* "Flight 741", a book in the long-running "Mack Bolan" series that was published one year after the TWA hijacking, begins with a hijacking of a Boeing 747 that closely resembles the events surrounding the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
:::* The Michael Jackson video for Man In The Mirror, featured a newsclip of one of the hijackers firing at the media who was interviewing the pilots from the airliner's cockpit window.
Without references from reliable sources, these cannot return to the article. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:56, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncited material in 'References in popular culture' section 

message: Hi there! I saw a news article today from the CBC, which showed a remarkable and intriguing picture of one of the hijackers and the pilot of this flight. Can someone with the appropriate experience review this image, and see whether it is suitable and legal for inclusion for Wikipedia? 
 The Legacy (talk) 16:07, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential new image 

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message: There are loads of photos of the actual aircraft, why cannot an authentic one be provided?
200.68.142.20 (talk) 02:49, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo?