Unabomber – Ingliando

On this day, American Airlines Flight 444, a Boeing 727 flying from Chicago to Washington, was forced to make an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport. In one of the mail bags on board the aeroplane was a pipe bomb, constructed by Ted Kaczynski, more commonly known as Unabomber. Fortunately for everyone on board, the bomb only partially detonated causing “a sucking explosion and a loss of pressure,” which was then followed by large quantities of smoke filling the passenger cabin. Twelve passengers were treated for smoke inhalation but nobody was injured. Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber) was a reclusive American mathematician and domestic terrorist. Between 1978 and 1995, he mailed or hand-delivered a series of increasingly sophisticated bombs that cumulatively killed three people and injured 23 others. By the time of his arrest, he had become the subject of the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.