SAFETY COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL INC
LETTER
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                                  Exhibit 10.4.3

                                  John C. Corey
                            210 Stone Brook Farm Way
                        Greenville, South Carolina 29615


Safety Components International, Inc.
Attn:  Compensation Committee
41 Stevens Street
Greenville, South Carolina 29605

Gentlemen:

      This letter will memorialize our agreement with respect to my receipt of a
change  of  control  bonus  from  Safety  Components  International,  Inc.  (the
"Company").

      Upon the closing of the proposed sale by Zapata Corporation, the Company's
largest stockholder, of all of its shares of the Company's stock to WLR Recovery
Fund III, L.P. (or an affiliate  thereof) (the "Zapata Sale"),  the Company will
pay me a bonus in the  amount  of Nine  Hundred  Ninety  Four  Thousand  Dollars
($994,000). This payment shall be in lieu of any change of control bonus that is
or might be payable to me pursuant to my employment  agreement  with the Company
as a result of the  Zapata  Sale and the  change(s)  in the  composition  of the
Company's Board of Directors directly resulting from the Zapata Sale.

      The  Company  and I  have  not  reached  any  agreement  regarding  how my
employment  agreement  should  or will be  interpreted  in the event of a future
change of control which is unrelated to the Zapata Sale.  The parties also agree
that neither the Company's  payment of the change of control bonus in respect of
the Zapata Sale nor my acceptance thereof will be used as evidence in support of
any  interpretation  of  the  change  of  control  provisions  of my  employment
agreement in the event of a future  change of control  which is unrelated to the
Zapata Sale.

                                   Sincerely,

                                   John C. Corey

                                   Daniel Tessoni
                                   On behalf of the Compensation Committee
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