[Drango]

Tin Hat alert!

[Camber-G]

I know a guy when he travels for work always makes up a phony name for the outside luggage tag.

I don't know why but he says its something about it not being anyone's business who's bag it is ... he's one of those real "privacy" type of guys who gets cheesed off when the check-in desk makes him put a tag on his bag.

Maybe someone who felt that same way on Flight 800 put that name on his bag.

[www.corvettewave.com]

Paging Elvis....Tin Hat is right...

[Tennessee_Bob]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Kabofovic

[Intolerant in NJ]

How then do we account for the bag with the luggage tag bearing the name of William Kabofovic?...Kabofovic was on a plane heading for the Bahamas - naturally his bag would be on another plane going to Europe.......

[Cicero]

People often don't remove old labels and tags from their bags.

[PatrioticAmerican]

A possible answer to the who is William Kabofovic question is a real person uses that name. For many years I had a name on my luggage that was not my real name. That was done for security reasons. Someone reading my luggage tag did not have my acutal name.

[VaBthang4]

"Just what does all of this mean? As of this writing, I can say truthfully, that I just don't know."

Well, when you do know....give me a call. Until then....whatever.

[MindBender26]

Sorry, but you and CNN got hosed by a stupid prank re: "William Kabofovic."

kabofovic is an older, dialectic from of the Croat word for bovine dung, or as we would say in the US, "Bullshi*."

Bottom line, some guy named Bill ran a racket on everyone.

[ElkGroveDan]

sounds like a good Freep handle if there is a lurker out there thinking of registering. Kabofovic, or BillKabofovic, or WillyKabofovic....hey there are a whole bunch of ways to us that name. Any takers?

[ElkGroveDan]

Now if they had found a piece of luggage with the name Vince Foster on it......THAT would be a story!

(darn someone used all the Reynolds Wrap on last nights' chicken, gotta be another roll around here somewhere)

[kcvl]

they suggested it may have been a bag borrowed by one of the TWA passengers," Aurelie Becker told CNN. Becker's daughter, Michelle, died in the crash.

[3D-JOY]

This is not making any sense!

The tags on a bag do not matter...it is the Paper wrap tag that identifies the luggage and the seat holder who checked the piece.

Given these facts...what was the real problem? Was the luggage checked by a non ticketed person or just a bag with a lost "sticky wrap "official tag"?

All the solutions discussed here do not seem to relate directly to any one problem...which has not been clearly identified in the story.

[FryingPan101]

Our luggage didn't arrive with us on a recent trip to Atlanta. Our luggage then came on another flight which we weren't on.

[FormerLurker]

I wonder if this bag is simply a red herring tossed out by the FBI to throw even more confusion into the works...

[Revolutionary]

TWA 800 was a terrorist shoot down. It was covered up by the Clinton administration so it would not have an impact on the '96 election. The bag could have contained a beacon to help the attackers identify the correct aircraft.

[sandydipper]

TWA 800 was shot down with a missle - the bag probably contained a homing device.

[Hammerhead]

"Being Will Kabofovic"

Good movie but weird.