Word: plane
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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...
President Reagan, boarding his plane in Los Angeles to return to Washington following a vacation, told reporters, "Our pilots acted completely in self-defense...
...little too much vacationing and not enough hockey over the winter break put the Harvard women's ice hockey team on the first plane out of Lake Placid...
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...
Investigators assumed that some clues to the fate of Flight 103 would be contained within the plane's two flight recorders, both of which were recovered from the wreckage. But on Friday they could find nothing abnormal on the voice tape save for a "faint unquantified noise" an instant before Flight 103 lost contact. They were hoping, however, that within a few days they would have further clues as to whether the Christmas tragedy at Lockerbie carried with it a murderous message of political symbolism...