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One passenger, 27-year old Takehiko Nakano of Evanston, Illinois , was alive when rescuers found him, but died from his injuries shortly thereafter. Fred P. Herman , who was previously awarded the United States Medal Of Freedom , was among the passengers. The FBI deduced that one of the passengers, Thomas G. Doty , who was 34 at the time, planted the device after buying a life insurance policy from Mutual Of Omaha for $150,000, the maximum available. Doty, of Merriam, Kansas , had recently been arrested for armed robbery and was to soon face a preliminary hearing in the matter. He had a wife and a five year-old daughter at the time. This incident could have been the foundation for the novel ''Airport'' by Arthur Hailey . The plot featured a passenger who buys the largest amount of insurance using his last few dollars and subsequently blows up the plane with dynamite in the lavatory. However, the novel ends with the safe return of the plane to a snow-covered airport with few casualties. The flight number is still used today on its Paris-Houston route and uses Boeing 777 aircraft. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |