Pan Am Flight 103 - Lockerbie Disaster
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Source from WiKi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_F...
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On December 21, 1988, the aircraft flying this route, a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA and named Cli
More..pper Maid of the Seas, was destroyed by a bomb, and the remains landed in and around the town of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (55°5.7′N, 3°20.3′W).
An editorial in The Guardian of December 23, 1988 reported:
"Two days before Christmas, two tides flow strongly. One—the greater tide—is the tide of peace. More nagging, bloody conflicts have been settled in 1988 than in any year since the end of the Second World War. There are forces for good abroad in the world as seldom before. There is also a tide of evil, a force of destruction. By just one of those ironies which afflict the human condition, peace came to Namibia yesterday. Meanwhile, on a Scottish hillside, the body of the Swedish UN Commissioner for Namibia was one amongst hundreds strewn across square miles of debris: a victim—supposition, but strongly based—of a random terrorist bomb which had blown a 747 to bits at 31,000 feet."[1]
In the subsequent investigation of the crash, forensic experts determined that about 1 lb (450g) of plastic explosive had been detonated in the airplane's forward cargo hold, triggering a sequence of events that led to the rapid destruction of the aircraft. Winds of 100 knots (190 km/h) scattered victims and debris along an 81 mile (130 km) corridor over an area of 845 square miles (2189 km˛).
The death toll was 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people in Lockerbie. Less..
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