One of Glass 's best known stories was his 1986 interview on the tarmac of Beirut Airport of the crew of TWA Flight 847 after the flight was hijacked . He broke the news that the hijackers had removed the hostages and had hidden them in the suburbs of Beirut , which caused the Reagan administration to cancel a rescue attempt that would have failed and led to loss of life at the airport . Glass made headlines in 1987 , when he was taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi'a militants . He describes the kidnapping and escape in his book , '' Tribes with Flags ''
TWA Flight 847
TWA Flight 847
Charles Glass