Plane Truth -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Prologue: 1996-2000 -- CHAPTER 1 SETTING THE STAGE -- Aviation Engineering in My Blood -- Coming to America -- Living It Up in Libya (1968 - 1973) -- (Getting) Out of Africa -- Eternal Paris -- Back to North America -- Navigating the Skies - and the Corridors of Cash -- What's Politics Got to Do with It? -- Getting Gadhaffi -- Getting the Americans - Flying over Lockerbie -- Toxic Waste, and Wasted Efforts -- Yugo Riddles -- On My Own, Again -- Raising Franck Curtin -- Now What? -- Chapter 2 "MY DINNER WITH FRANCK" -- Evaporating Prospects -- On the Road Again -- Frank Talk about Boeing 747's -- Chapter 3 LIBYAGATE -- Chapter 4 LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND. PAN AM 103 INVESTIGATION -- Chapter 5 EVERETT, WASHINGTON. BIRTHPLACE OF THE BOEING 747 -- Chapter 6 GATHERING EVIDENCE: TIMING DEVICES -- Timing Devices, or Doubtful Evidence -- Chapter 7 TWA 800 AND THE FOUR CRASH THEORIES -- The Terrorism Theory -- The Missile Theory -- The Central Fuel Tank Explosion -- The Metal Fatigue Theory -- Chapter 8 WHY DO BOEING 747'S BREAK UP IN FLIGHT? -- Stress on All Sides -- Skin Problems -- A Little Help from Our Russian Friends -- Fail-Safing Successes -- . . . And Failures -- The Pan Am Report -- What Happened to TWA 800? -- Chapter 9 LATE BREAKING NEWS -- UTA's DC-10 -- Fly, Britannia -- A Bit of A Scrap - Jim and Jane Swire -- Bollier, Or Odd Timing -- These are Trying Times -- The Lockerbie Trial -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.