How Media-Hungry Terrorists Pulled Off the Wildest Hijacking of All Time
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The TWA Hostage Crisis was an epic 17-day shitshow that whiplashed between abject terror and black comedy. As a young foreign correspondent, I got to see it all firsthand.
It was the summer of terror—an altogether different terror than the pandemic kind we’re living through now. But it was just as global and, at the time, just as harrowing.
