[operation clinton cleanup]

Russell "Mohammed" Defreitas appeared in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 2, 2007. The former airline cargo worker was arrested in connection with a plot to blow up fuel tanks at JFK airport.

Didn't that TWA 800 flight take off from JFK before it exploded?

[LibFreeOrDie]

Yes.

[Alice in Wonderland]

Yes, and so did American Airlines flight 587. On November 12, 2001, ninety seconds after takeoff from JFK, it nosedived into a residential neighborhood in the Rockaways. It was the 2nd worst aviation crash in U.S. history.

I always thought it might have been a shoe bomber, but the NTSB said the pilot “inappropriately handled” the aircraft and set off a chain of events that led to the separation of the tail.