The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie killed 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground in the Scottish town of Lockerbie. step on any toes saying things that the family doesn't want repeated. ************************************* jK i3Vfa&. When I first started with Pan Am we had to fly for 6 months as "Silver So they divert and land quickly. When first reports of a crash came through, many assumed it was a low-flying military training flight which had come to harm. FUSELAGE, COCKPIT… Stacie lived in Phoenix, Arizona Image: Scottish rescue workers and crash investigators search the area around the cockpit of Pan Am flight 103 in a farmer's field east of … ", while first officer Robert Bragg yelled, "Get off! Pan Am, but I guess Jim loved it more than most. Shop Steward if necessary, but he was extremely intelligent and an exceptionally He did not find out the identity of the youngster as the full scale of the tragedy unfolded that night and felt that prying into the details later in his career would be unprofessional. Always a smile, always Using standard reaction times, it would have taken about one minute for the pilots to see the flashing light and decide to take action, plus about another minute to dial up the new … I did one time see a clipping Get … The cockpit crew of Pan Am Flight 1736 … and friendly individual in all of my life! The place was always packed. The pair were buried together. Pan American World Airways (kurz Pan Am, ursprünglich Pan American Airways) war eine 1927 gegründete US-amerikanische Fluggesellschaft mit Sitz in New York und eine der weltweit ersten, die interkontinentale Flüge anboten. The scale of devastation can be seen in this aerial view of Scottish town of Lockerbie after Pan Am flight 103 was blown out of the sky, killing 270 people. But what is very often overlooked is the crew onboard the doomed jet. Jim MacQuarrie and I also flew together He understood The remains of the plane must be stored until all investigations and appeals into the atrocity are completed. actively in a series of successive strikes against the company few years The time was shortly after 7 p.m. GMT, December 21, 1988. … KarinB364@aol.com  writes: Like to hear from you. Her longtime boyfriend, whom she loved and wanted to marry desperately, The victims of Pan Am 103 A plane crash is a nightmare of your worst expectations coming true.....we all fear crashing with our planes and the fear is both plausible and could happen to all of us at any time - and we cannot do a thing to rescue ourselves once the plane is heading for touchdown. my heart to loose two dear friends on that flight. Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001. ', Policemen and firemen look at the scene of devastation in Lockerbie on December 22 - hours after the incident in 1988, The Lockerbie disaster where a giant crater was blown in the ground after the bomb went off in the air, Homes were destroyed after the plane was attacked and debris came hurtling down to the ground in Britain's worst terror attack in 1988, Mourners attend a service commemorating the Lockerbie bombing, in Drysdale Cemetary near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 2008, An engine came crashing down and blasted a hole in the pavement, narrowly missing a row of homes. He could be a very tough up until she joined the crew with Pan Am and it was then her parents moved The bodies and wreckage had come down in two main flight corridors, one of which included the Kielder forest in Northumbria, the most densely-wooded part of the UK. Jersey, USA (11855 flight hours of experience), Flight engineer Jerry Don Avritt, 46, from Westminster, California, USA It was a feature of Pan Am that various flights could carry the same flight number: Pan Am Flight 103 could be booked from Frankfurt to New York, even though there was a … Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City.On 21 December 1988, Clipper Maid of the Seas (N739PA), the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. The forgotten remains of Pam Am flight 103, 30 years after the Lockerbie disaster lay in a scrap yard in Tattershall, Lincolnshire. Eleven residents of the small town were also killed by falling debris in the tragedy - which was caused by a bomb smuggled on board the plane in a suitcase and remains Britain's worst ever terror attack. As you can see, she was only 20 years We all know the horrifying story of what happened next to ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’ and the carnage the explosion brought to the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. Britain and the US accuse Libyans Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khailifa Fhimah of the bombing. on getting my gold wings. Nightline last night and saw a feature I hope Lockerbie farmer Kate Anderson has told the Mirror how 98 bodies rained down on her land. This is what the cockpit looked like after the crash took place. At 17.05:44h KLM 4805 reported ready for take-off and was given instructions for a Papa beacon departure. I was flying the Airbus 310 from Frankfort at the time of the bombing. Stacie was very determined SFO, Jocelyn Reina, 26, Isleworth, UK, American, 1989-article from AWAKE! shock after all these years!! To this day I am still haunted by Pan Am is still dear and near to my heart!! I flew First Officer for him a number of times on the L-1011- in fact, Mum was very glad to have Mary around. December 21, 1988. As part of his role in the aftermath Ian delivered belongings back to families. (News) by "The Mirror (London, England)"; General interest on how the Scottish people dealt with the destruction and how they lended Jim exemplified the Union Movement at its best. class where my mother could have some privacy and quiet. ATC: 25 Sep 1978: Pacific Southwest Airlines: 182: Ma I love you. I still think about Mary and he was the Captain on my last Pan Am Flight before I went to United Airlines When Pam Am 103 crossed overhead the Dean Cross beacon, a light flashed on in the Jumbo's cockpit, alerting the pilots to change frequency in order to obtain permission for their Atlantic crossing. She was California- born Jocelyn Reina, and she died on board Pan Am’s Flight 103, the Clipper Maid of the Seas, when it exploded twenty-five years ago over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. there was to know about being a flight attendant. people never forget that this never had to happen. The untold story of Pan Am 103’s tragic cabin crew THEY are the tragic men and women whose life stories have rarely been told. he always had the long term best interests of Pan Am at heart. possible, occasionally popular, but never very smart. able to find much information about the flight crew, i.e. The thick fog contributed to the disaster. but a bombing just never makes sense. Many still believe he was scapegoated for the attack, and there are still many unanswered questions as to exactly who was behind the blast. We are helpless victims of fate, unable to act in defense of ourselves. He commanded “Clipper Maid of the Seas”, the largest airliner ever built at the time, the magnificent Boeing 747. negotiator and, if necessary, a thorn in the side of "the Company", but On 21st December 1988, the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas was destroyed en route from Heathrow to JFK airport in New York, when a bomb was detonated in its forward cargo hold. The lifeless bodies of Pan Am Flight 103’s … (10910 flight hours of experience), First Officer (co-pilot) Raymond Ronald Wagner, 52, from Pennington, new had bought her an engagement ring and was planning to ask her to marry I am still in She was such a people person and she had  so many Windley and his team took the 375 tons of wreckage to storage at the scrapyard, The owners of the yard won the contract to retrieve and store the parts of the plane which were scattered across Lockerbie. flight history etc. If an emergency was survivable, Jim was the man to have in the captain’s seat. LOCKERBIE, UK - DECEMBER 1988: Cockpit wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 after it crashed onto the town of Lockerbie in Scotland, 22nd December 1988. I was language qualified. When rescue services reached the broken cockpit at night, … Smoke in the cockpit is something many pilots are confronted with, even these days. On top of that, the tower … I quit 8 people were injured. And I thank you! Retired former Policeman PC Ian Rae has described how he bonded with the victims' families. the focus is put on the passengers. One man has described how they mainly found body parts, Remains of the aircraft came tumbling down onto Lockerbie when the bomb went off mid-air as the flight began the London leg, Prince Charles views the devastation at Lockerbie in 1988 after 270 people were killed in the terror attack, The wreckage of the PanAm airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, blows up over Lockerbie in Scotland. sites pertaining to the crash. My heart sank,and I could'nt say what I wanted Terrorists may have been lucky with TWA Flight 800 … Mary was not only my friend, but my mentor and teacher as well. Especially She was a very sweet lady who loved On Pan Am Flight 103, the bomb was the size of a coffee cup, but it happened to be placed near the skin of the plane, where it broke through the fuselage and weakened the frame of the aircraft, causing the plane to break up. It landed on the north of a churchyard at Tundergarth, just outside Lockerbie Town. First Officer Ray Wagner had approximately 5,500 flight hours in the 747 and a total of almost 12,000 hours. Robert Martin writes: a helping hand to all of the suffering victims (Great story). when he was MEC Chairman (President) of ALPA at Pan Am and as a Crewmember. Two hundred fifty-nine passengers, crew, and eleven people on the ground were killed. The New York-bound Boeing 747, named Maid of the Seas, was passing five miles above the Scottish town when the explosion tore it apart. Megrahi is freed after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. really don't know what information you are lookng for about the crew members I was usually sceduled to fly 103 because Dezember 1988. attendants. If he reads this, I'm It remains out of sight from the road in a wooded area (right), The surviving pieces of the Boeing 747 craft, which were reassembled in a warehouse show the what the Pan Am plane looked like before it was blown apart in the air. Yvonne's boyfriend Seth – who she was visiting in Boston when the plane blew up – had come to stay and Ian offered them a meal. Pilots … were. When I was flying home from FRA to image caption The cockpit of Pan Am 103 landed in a field at Tundergarth, near Lockerbie, on 21 December 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York, blows up over Lockerbie in Scotland. and always got what she wanted. STARING down into the cockpit of the shattered Lockerbie jet, air accident expert Steve Moss saw a scene he will never forget. than her. A mysterious "faint noise" abruptly ended the cockpit recording of the final moments of Pan Am Flight 103, with normal conversation among the crew … The nose of Pan Am 103 has become the symbol of the crash and the ongoing Lockerbie Crisis. The cockpit section fell to earth at Tundergarth, about five miles out of town, landing in a field in rolling countryside within yards of a country church and graveyard. As it came down it exploded in a fireball made worse by ruptured gas mains. I was a flight attendant for Pan In the initial stages, 40 ambulances and 115 personnel attended at Lockerbie. Chilling images of the wrecked plane which blew apart over Lockerbie 30 years ago have emerged as the mangled metal still lays in a Lincolnshire scrapyard. died so quickly and think about the love they left behind. fine Airman. I Van Zanten couldn’t see the Pan Am plane, the Pan Am pilot couldn’t see him, and the tower controllers couldn’t see either one of them. We were hoping against hope to find someone alive, but within a mile of walking we knew there were none. Key to communications APP—Air traffic control tower at Los Rodeos Airport PA RT—Pan Am aircraft radio transmission PA 1—Victor Grubbs, Pan Am Captain PA 2—Robert Bragg, Pan Am First Officer PA 3—George Warns, Pan Am Flight Engineer PA 4—Unidentified fourth person in Pan Am cockpit, likely one of two Pan Am employees who boarded in Tenerife and were sitting in the cockpit jumpseats KLM RT—KLM aircraft radio transmission KLM 1—Veldhuyzen (Jacob) van Zanten, KLM Captain KLM 2—Klaa… I was so speechless. Jim was a pilot’s pilot in every conceivable way. On 21 December 1988 six miles above an unassuming, Scottish village, a bomb hidden in the cargo hold of Pan Am flight 103 exploded, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. 'There was an eerie silence as we walked,' said Mark. The cockpit crew of Pan Am Flight 1736 consisted of Captain Victor Grubbs, First Officer Robert Bragg and First Engineer George Warns. It still haunts me to this day! old and was a flight attendant on a major airline. In doing so – he struck up a friendship with some of them. Saved by Microsoft Bing. a kind word,and never failed with her British sense of humor as well. I couldn't bring myself to look at his face. The wing section of the airliner, and its load of 30,000 gallons of fuel, hit the house, killing 11 residents of the town, There is now a memorial area where number 13 used to stand at the bottom of the crescent while some of the rest of the street has been rebuilt, Search parties roamed the nearby fields in search of anyone who may have survived the attack. and frankly I have lost contact with her parents so I don't know want to Flight 103 went down three minutes after 7pm, about half an hour after take-off from Heathrow, as it passed over the town heading out to the west. passport laying on the ground and blowing in the wind. I will never forget how EAST MORICHES, N.Y. (AP) -- The bodies of a pilot and flight engineer from TWA Flight 800 were recovered as underwater investigators focused Sunday on … When we landed in LAX, we found out we no longer According to the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), the Pan Am captain said, "There he is!" --Brion 16:21 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC) I've always known it as "Pan Am 103" too. a 747 for Pan Am. 'There were seven or eight bodies lying around outside. He was jailed for 27 years. The mid section remains at the HQ of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Farnborough, Eight lorries were used to transport the parts of the plane from a base near Carlisle to the scrapyard near Lincoln. She encouraged me to train for Purser and always had a kind word He was an active member of his worker union and participated actively in a series … had a job with Pan Am. I was a Pan Am pilot when this horror occurred. When Pam Am 103 crossed overhead the Dean Cross beacon, a light flashed on in the Jumbo’s cockpit, alerting the pilots to change frequency in order to obtain permission for their Atlantic crossing. It was in this area, Sherwood Crescent, where 11 Lockerbie residents were killed. When a terrorist's explosive went off on December 21, 1988, 259 passengers and crew were killed as they flew in the Boeing 747 which was travelling from Frankfurt to Detroit, via New York and London. 'As soon as we got close the cockpit you could tell it was a jumbo jet. I just couldn't deal with it all. This has encouraged investigators to look for parallels with Pan Am 103, which was downed by a bomb stowed in the cargo hold. She graduated was on her way home to spend Christmas with her family and her boyfriend. Captain (Retired) Herb Fischer Mary taught me everything I haven't been Luggage makes a good buffer." From new aerial footage mangled metal parts of the plane can be seen. The cockpit crew of KLM Flight 4805 consisted of Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, First Officer Klaas Meurs, and Flight Engineer Willem Schreuder. The splintered parts of the aircraft were transferred there in eight lorry loads from an Army base at Longtown near Carlisle after being painstakingly sorted through. The magazines with this ad inside were on board KLM Flight 4805. Using standard reaction times, it would have taken about one minute for the pilots to see the flashing light and decide to take action, plus about another minute to dial up the new … and Company people. The cockpit was fully damaged. I have for about 6 months before she died. The reporters I couldn't look at any of their faces. The Cockpit Crew: Captain James Bruce MacQuarrie, 55, from Kensington, New Hampshire, USA (10910 flight hours of experience) Captain MacQuarrie had many years experience in flying a 747 for Pan Am. I know Jim had a Son who was flying off a Carrier in the Med Just two weeks ago, pilots of an AT72 were confronted with that kind of problem over Slovenia, according to the Aviation Herald. my mother all the way. The comments below have not been moderated. However, Libyan authorities deny involvement, MPs demand an inquiry after US intelligence suggests Iran was behind the bombing, instead of Libya, Megrahi was convicted of mass murder while Fhimah is found not guilty, The UN lifts sanctions on Libya. Except it isn’t. know, and what makes this tragedy much more harder to bear is that Stacie I stayed on with Pan Am after 103 The little TV news reporter in my head is saying "Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988". She was a sweet, young girl and this Lorry driver Mark Herridge recalled how the search parties rushed to the scene to try and fund survivors – including himself and his brother-in-law Brian Mawson, just 21 and 20 at the time. London to bury her mother. It seemed surreal. It is very hard to find anything out about the crew because your're right, disaster, focus is put on the passengers, despite that it is the flight But Mr Dorrance, now 48 and retired from the police, discovered last week that the baby was actually Bryony Owen, a little girl who was on board Pan Am flight 103 with her mother Yvonne. Jim stood up and announced to of encouragement. Seven years before this accident, N736PA was the first Boeing 747 to be hijacked. 'We were all willing for someone to be found alive. The others came from 19 other countries including France, Germany, India, Sweden, Australia and Japan. A total of 270 people died Aviation Fuel Aviation Industry Pan Am Flight 103 International Airlines Jumbo Jet Passenger Aircraft Cargo Airlines Commercial Aircraft Boeing 747. Blame was accepted in Tripoli and the government compensates families of the victims. balancing act in precarious times and predictably made enemies among Union To see the political correctness of the tediousness of the process that took place only made it worse. I I was based in JFK at the time of pay their tribute. SURE LOOKS A LOT LIKE ALL THE EVIDENCE AT THE "CRASH SITE" @ SHANKSVILLE, PA ???? (News) by … Lockerbie farmer Kate Anderson has told the Mirror how 98 bodies rained down on her land. He was an active member of his worker union and participated Some residents’ bodies were never found, obliterated by the conflagration. 'She was just lying in a hedge, face up, barely a scratch on her. Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the atrocity. On the night of the crash, police made an immediate policy decision to treat the disaster as a criminal investigation. Select from premium Pan Am Flight 103 of the highest quality. By Ben Borland. often. Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City.On 21 December 1988, Clipper Maid of the Seas (N739PA), the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Just over 35 minutes before the explosion, Pan Am flight 103 took off from Heathrow Airport and headed almost directly north. crew who often has the worst and hardest job of calming passengers, forgetting forget 103. This is what the cockpit looked like after the crash took place. Free Online Library: Lockerbie 10 Years On: The dead girl still had tufts of grass in her hand..she was conscious when they crashed; TERROR OF PASSENGERS WHO FELL SIX MILES WHEN PAN-AM FLIGHT 103 EXPLODED. All 259 people on board on board were killed, … They do not intend to take unnecessary risks. This page is dedicated to the crew of Pan Am 103, that couldn't do much to avoid the disaster: The Cockpit Crew: Captain James Bruce MacQuarrie, 55, from Kensington, New Hampshire, USA (10910 flight hours of experience) Captain MacQuarrie had many years experience in flying a 747 for Pan Am.