The daughter and sister of airplane designers, Samme Chittum, re-tells the story in her book about The Flight 981 disaster on March 3, 1974. Chittum says she “approaches the book as a story” or a ...

In 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in France due to a cargo door failure, resulting in the deaths of 346 people. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was the target of a terrorist attack.