The LaGuardia Bombing Nobody Ever Answered For

At 6:33 p.m. on December 29, 1975, a bomb hidden inside a coin-operated locker exploded in the Trans World Airlines baggage claim at LaGuardia Airport, tearing a hole through the terminal's reinforced concrete ceiling. Eleven people died and seventy-four more were hurt, most of them airport workers, limo drivers, and travelers waiting on bags. Investigators think the timing was an accident: two flights from Cincinnati and Indianapolis had landed a half hour earlier and most of those passengers had already cleared out, and the bomb may have been meant to go off twelve hours before or after it did, when the room would have been nearly empty. What followed was the largest criminal investigation in NYPD history to that point, chasing leads from Croatian nationalists to a supposed PLO phone claim the UN denied, and it went nowhere. Nobody was ever charged.