17 Days Of Terror: The Hijack of TWA 847

If you want a concise study of how a single incident of terror can render helpless a country and its resources, the textbook case would probably be this-the Hijacking of Flight TWA 847. Originally intended to fly 145 passengers (mostly Americans) from Athens to Rome, the airliner was hijacked in flight and rerouted to Beirut, where the terrorists began an odyssey of terror. On the spot news coverage with commentary from ABC news personalities such as Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Pierre Salinger, and Peter Glass.