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FLYING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS IN 1985, three years before the Pan Am bombing, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members died when their chartered DC-8 jet plunged to earth just after taking off from a refueling stop in Gander, Newfoundland. It was the worst U.S. military air disaster ever. Icing of the wings was immediately suggested as the cause, although Islamic Jihad terrorists just as quickly boasted of blowing...
...evidence of a precrash explosion is overwhelming. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police obtained sworn statements from five witnesses who saw the DC-8 spewing flames before it fell. Judith Parsons, an airport rental-car agent, was warming up her automobiles out in the parking lot when she saw the sky light up. Suddenly "a large orange oval" appeared above the ground, she reported. "It just blew up and went everywhere, burning like cinders falling to the earth...
...hinted that this time Paris might join -- even though France only last month proposed that the European Community lift existing economic sanctions against Libya. An embarrassingly few days later, a French examining magistrate accused four other Libyans, including Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdallah Senoussi, of bombing a French DC- 10 jet that exploded over Africa nine months after the Lockerbie tragedy (death toll: 171). French intelligence suspects that both bombings were planned at the same meeting in Tripoli...
...chartered Dutch DC-8 ferrying 182 Indonesian pilgrims to Mecca crashed in Sri Lanka, resulting in their deaths...
...suspect: Libya. According to press reports in Europe and the U.S., French investigators have developed evidence that Libya plotted attacks on American and French targets beginning in September 1988. The Libyans supposedly directed terrorists to put a bomb aboard the Pan Am plane and another on a French U.T.A. DC-10 jet, which blew up over Africa in September 1989. The two explosions killed a total of 441 people...