This is speculative — there are no clinical records of her psychological state that have been made public, and her decision to decline therapy makes it difficult to know what, if any, symptoms of PTSD she experienced. What the public record shows is that she maintained functioning over decades at a level that allowed her to work, to maintain relationships, to engage politically, and to speak publicly about her experience. Whatever psychological resources she brought to the aftermath of the crash, they were apparently sufficient to sustain a functioning life.
## What the Record Has Meant for Aviation Safety
The specific case of JAT Flight 367 was one of a series of aircraft bombings and hijackings in the early 1970s that collectively drove significant changes in how commercial aviation manages security risks. The era from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s was, in aviation history, a period of extraordinary vulnerability: the combination of increasing international air travel, the political violence of multiple nationalist and revolutionary movements, and the absence of systematic security screening created conditions in which aircraft became targets.
The incidents of this period — including the 1972 JAT bombing, the 1972 Lod Airport massacre, multiple hijackings, and other attacks — created pressure on governments and aviation authorities to develop more systematic approaches to preventing improvised explosive devices and other weapons from reaching aircraft.
The specific lesson of JAT Flight 367 — that a device could be loaded in carry-on baggage at a transit stop and detonate at altitude — influenced the development of what became known as “positive passenger reconciliation”: the requirement that luggage not travel on an aircraft unless the passenger who checked it is aboard. If the passenger who loaded the device at Copenhagen had not boarded the aircraft for the continuation of the flight, a positive passenger reconciliation requirement would have flagged their baggage and prevented it from traveling. Whether this is exactly how the device was handled remains part of the unresolved record of the case.