Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second major plane crash in Britain in three weeks. On Dec. 21, a Pan Am jet bound for New York from London blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. That jet had also just departed from Heathrow. A bomb was blamed for the crash. The two crashes are apparently unrelated...
...Abrahamson has admitted that nuclear power in space is necessary for SDI to work Without it, he said, "that's going to be a long, long lightcord that goes down to the surface of the earth." Ten percent of the SDI budget goes towards developing satellites powered by nuclear bomb pulses and nuclear reactors; current plans call for up to 100 to be put into orbit...
...London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch and the FBI jointly assumed the difficult task of finding out how the bomb got on the plane...
...York. If so, specific evidence of the sabotage would have been almost impossible to dredge up from the wintry Atlantic. But Flight 103 left Heathrow 25 minutes late. Anticipating such delays, terrorists have used barometers to start a timer only when a set air pressure has developed near the bomb. Since the cargo holds in a 747 are pressurized after takeoff along with the cabin, the barometer could detect this change and start the timer. If such a technique was used on Flight 103, it failed to postpone the blast until the aircraft was over water only because high-altitude...
...member of Abu Nidal's P.L.O. faction is, in fact, already charged with a plane bombing. Greece is holding Mohammed Rashid on false passport charges while deciding whether to extradite him to the U.S., where he is wanted for the 1982 explosion aboard a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu. The pilot landed in Hawaii with 285 passengers, but a 16-year-old Japanese boy, seated close to the exploding bomb, was killed...