Was TWA 800 shot down?

On Sunday, July 14, 1996, Mrs. Carl and I and our five eldest children (the only ones we had then) flew on TWA 880 non-stop from New York - Kennedy to Tel Aviv. The flight was due to take off at 9:00, and we had left our suitcases by friends in Queens earlier in the day. But we discovered that two adults, five kids and 14 suitcases would not all fit in a rented Plymouth Voyager. So I drove Mrs.