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POST HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION THAT ON DECEMBER 5, 1988, AN UNIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL TELEPHONED A U.S. DIPLOMATIC FACILITY IN EUROPE AND STATED THAT SOMETIME WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS THERE WOULD BE A BOMBING ATTEMPT AGAINST A PAN AMERICAN AIRCRAFT FLYING FROM FRANKFURT TO THE UNITED STATES...
...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...
Sputtering burning fuel, a large chunk of the fuselage struck a hill outside Lockerbie, then careened into a gas station and two rows of houses, gouging a 20-ft.-wide crater in a roadway. In the center of town, an aircraft engine lay embedded in the street. Sixty bodies were later recovered from a nearby golf course and taken to the town hall, which had been turned into a makeshift mortuary. One body was found on a back porch, another entangled in the branches of a tree. Three miles away, the plane's blue-and-white cockpit, containing the bodies...
...updated version of its venerable twin-engine DC-9. Douglas has delivered 553 of the newer model to some 41 airlines, and has orders for 275 more. The company is helping build a similar jet, the MD-82, in Shanghai. China's state airline, CAAC, plans to use the aircraft on its domestic routes. Under a $600 million licensing agreement with the Chinese government, the California firm is providing the parts for 25 of the jets...
...could cause a rash of order cancellations, though the volume of orders from foreign flag carriers lessens that risk. Most important is a concern that corners might be cut as production speeds up. * British Airways, Japan Air Lines and other Boeing customers have complained about sloppy work on some aircraft produced in the past three years. The company may face criminal charges in Japan because of faulty Boeing repairs that led to the 1985 crash of a Japan Air Lines 747 in which 520 passengers and crew members died...