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Forty-one years later, the case remains unsolved.
But how do you even begin to look at a decades-old case from a new angle?
The flight hearkened back to the golden era of air travel.
Men donned ties while glamorous stewardesses served Champagne.
But on that day, the plane crashed into the Erebus Volcano, killing all 257 people onboard.
Nothing valuable was missing, other than passports, but it was unusual.
Power had been cut and a photo of her husband was torn.
Was it the work of someone looking to bury information?
As investigators search for answers, everyone questions why the pilot was on the wrong side of the volcano.
His wife recalls sitting in a lawyers office and wondering, What happens now?
Am I married to a murderer?
By then there had already been reports that Hammami had been killed, but Putzel continued the email conversation.
Putzel introduces us to Hammamis hometown of Daphne, Alabama, and Bernie Culveyhouse and his family.
Culveyhouse and Hammami even traveled to Egypt together, though thats where they parted ways.
None of them can understand how their friend could have become a terrorist.
Jenni Miller
