Honestly, Kerry is not very sharp. It could well be that this was a botched reference to the PAN AM flight 103 that blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland. I would not hang my hat on anything Mr. Heinz says.
I’m not immune to that arguement.
Find the transcript of Bill Clinton on LKL when his first book (the door stop book) was released..... he named off terrorist attacks while he was president and in the list was TWA 800... he said it as cool as a cucumber and Larry King never blinked an eye at his comment.