Pan Am 103 Death Flight – The Final Mysteries of the Lockerbie Terrorist Attack

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On December 21, 1988, a jumbo jet operated by the iconic American airline Pan Am crashed in the small Scottish town of Lockerbie after a bomb exploded on board. Three days before Christmas, 270 people were brutally killed. A Libyan was convicted of this terrorist attack, but not least thanks to the work of the Tyrolean university professor Hans Köchler, who critically observed the trial for the UN more than twenty years ago, it is now considered very likely that there was a scandalous miscarriage of justice. made at the time. The real perpetrator or perpetrators may still be at large. On the 35th anniversary of the attack, a book about this tragedy has now been published in German for the first time. It’s called “Pan Am Flight 103: The Lockerbie Tragedy – Christmas Voyage to Death.” It was written by Austrian aviation photographer and flight expert Patrick Huber. Krone+ publishes exclusive excerpts from it and spoke to the author.

The airline Pan American World Airways, better known as Pan Am, went bankrupt in 1991 after 64 years and was for decades considered a pioneer in scheduled airline flights and an American institution par excellence. Whether New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Berlin, Frankfurt, Beirut, Johannesburg, Salzburg, Vienna or Sydney: the aircraft with the characteristic blue and white globe and the American flag on the vertical tail was a familiar sight at airports all over the world. worldwide .

The other side of the coin: as a prominent figurehead of the US, Pan Am was also a ‘popular’ target for terrorists. The worst attack on society occurred 35 years ago, on December 21, 1988, and simultaneously sealed its demise.

Source: Krone

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