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25 years ago today, 189 Americans died on Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland
Posted on 12/21/13 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 12/21/13 at 3:21 pm
The Lockerbie Cairn, through its 270 blocks of red Scottish sandstone, memorializes the 270 lives lost in the terrorist attack on the United States when Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. It is a gift of the people of Scotland to the people of the United States, financed entirely through private donations. The ill-fated flight was enroute from Frankfurt, Germany, to New York via London's Heathrow Airport. Twenty-seven minutes after leaving London, at 7:02 p.m. the plane exploded, raining fragments on the city of Lockerbie, including an entire wing and engines. Eleven of the 270 dead were on the ground. The passengers and crew included people from 22 countries. Among them were 189 Americans, including 15 active duty military and 10 veterans.
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This post was edited on 12/21/13 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 12/21/13 at 6:41 pm to Alahunter
I was born in England as my dad was USAF. We flew Pan Am out of London a couple months before this for my dad's next assignment. Crazy to think you were even that close to something like this. I was three years old.
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Posted on 12/21/13 at 7:01 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
I flew back from Glasgow during a year abroad the next week, scary stuff
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