In 1975 and 1978 , VF-102 conducted cross-deck operations aboard HMS '' Ark Royal '' . In 1971 , 1973 , 1974 , 1975 : the squadron conducted four deployments to the Mediterranean Sea aboard USS Independence as part of Carrier Air Wing Six , including a port call in Athens , Greece , when they had a political coup ; air cover operations during the Yom Kippur War ; and recovery of aircraft debris and bodies from TWA Flight 841 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after a terrorist bomb exploded in the hold
TWA Flight 841
TWA Flight 841 (1974)
VFA-102