What country do USCGC Campbell and TWA Flight 800 have in common?
TWA Flight 800 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board perished in the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. territory.
USS Stethem USS "Stethem" (DDG-63) is an "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship was built in Pascagoula, Mississippi, starting on 11 May 1993. The ship was commissioned on 21 October 1995 and is based out of Yokosuka, Japan. The ship is named for Steelworker 2nd Class Robert Stethem, who was a Navy sailor killed by terrorists onboard TWA 847 in Beirut, Lebanon in 1985. "Stethem" has operated throughout the Pacific Ocean, as well as on deployments to the Persian Gulf. The ship remains on active duty, assigned to the Pacific Fleet, as of 2012.