Word: london
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of Lockerbie and the rest of the world quickly learned, the grisly shower consisted of the remains of a 747 jetliner, Pan American Flight 103 from London to New York, and its 258 passengers and crew members. Long before dawn, emergency rescue teams realized that everybody on the plane had perished, along with at least 22 people on the ground. In the grim history of aviation disasters, Flight 103 made the record books on two counts: as Britain's deadliest air crash and as Pan Am's worst accident involving only one plane...
...Flight 103 had pulled away from Terminal 3 at London's Heathrow Airport. Takeoff was 25 minutes late, but that was hardly unusual in the midst of the Christmas travel crush at one of the world's busiest airports. Among the 258 passengers were some 49, many of them U.S. servicemen, who had arrived from Frankfurt on a connecting flight, and 35 undergraduates who had been on an overseas study program sponsored by Syracuse University, as well as four U.S. State Department employees...
...headed northward on a normal course toward Scotland and the North Atlantic Circle route, which would take it to New York in about 7 1/2 hours and then on to Detroit. Both takeoff and early flight were normal, and within 35 minutes the aircraft was routinely transferred from London air-traffic control at West Drayton to Scotland's air- traffic control at Prestwick, southwest of Glasgow. Inside the plane, passengers were busily settling in for the long flight -- chatting with friends, fiddling with pillows, reading magazines -- while the attendants began preparations to serve dinner...
Still another possibility was that Islamic extremists linked to Iran were involved. In London an anonymous caller to the Associated Press claimed that the Pan Am plane had been attacked in retaliation for the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus last July by the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes, which mistook the passenger plane for an F-14 fighter. All 290 aboard perished...
...Frankfurt a bomb was slipped into luggage checked through to New York, but its owner never boarded the connecting flight in London...