Investigators Couldn't Figure Out How This Plane Crashed, Until They Checked Her Handbag

Pan Am Flight 73

That's not the only story of a plane ride gone wrong. The survivors of Pan Am Flight 73 were expecting a normal trip from India to New York. During a layover at 4:30 AM, things went awry. Onboard the aircraft, there were 394 passengers and 9 infant babies, as well as an American flight crew and 13 Indian flight attendants. Exactly 109 people got off at this layover, but a group of people boarded that would soon make this flight a living nightmare...

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