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Author : Steven Emerson,Brian Duffy
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038654419
What the investigation of the Pan Am 103 incident revealed and how this first evidence was pieced together.
Author : R. Doug Wicker
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0823936562
An account of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, focusing on the events leading up to the act of terrorism, the impact on people involved, and the investigation of this crime.
Author : Matthew Cox,Tom Foster
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988.
ISBN : 0802113826
An account of the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, chronicles the stories of the people who perished in the disaster, describing the result of their tragic death on their families.
Author : Karen Bornemann Spies
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bombing investigation
ISBN : 0766017885
This series examines the terrible effects of American Disasters in a high-interest, exciting style geared toward capturing the reluctant reader. Each book explains the basic scientific principles behind the disaster and includes personal accounts of the survivors, putting the reader in the center of the action. Each indexed book contains full-color photographs, chapter notes, a further reading list, and a list of interesting and relevant Web Sites.On December 21, 1988, passengers filled with holiday spirit crowded onto a Pan American flight in London's Heathrow Airport, bound for New York. Not far away, residents of the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland, prepared their suppers after an ordinary day. Everything changed when the plane, Flight 103, suddenly exploded in midair above Lockerbie. Flaming pieces of wreckage rained down on the terrified residents of the town below. In Pan Am Flight 103: Terrorism Over Lockerbie, author Karen Bornemann Spies describes the horrifying events surrounding the terror attack that claimed nearly 300 lives that December day, as well as how the disaster changed the way airports operate their security. Also included are quotes from members of victims' families and officials who investigated the crash.
Author : Robert Gandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Airlines
ISBN : 1888962119
In 1966, Pan American Airways reached the zenith of its wealth & influence. Its pilots were lords of the sky; Skygods. Under aviation pioneer Juan Trippe's autocratic control, Pan Am bought jet airliners before its competitors & made record profits. It was the first U.S. airline to order the supersonic transport; it accepted reservations for the first service to the Moon. Then Pan American Airways fell to earth. In Skygods, Robert Gandt, a Pan Am pilot for 26 years, gives an inside account of the great airline's unprecedented demise. He interviewed hundreds of former Pan Am airmen & executives. He reveals how Pan Am's captains, in Navy-style uniforms, once commanded their ships like petty tyrants. They were the best & brightest in airline industry, but there were disturbing stories of captains who allowed stewardesses to land their aircraft, flew them at the wrong altitude & in the wrong direction & who tragically disappeared, often without a trace. All was not well either in the Pan Am Building, the massive landmark in New York where a succession of impulsive & short-sighted CEOs combined to preside over the demise of a great airline. Pan An bought a domestic airline it did not need; bought aircraft it did not need & operated half-empty planes on low-density routes. It sold the entire Pacific network for a bargain price & sold precious assets to meet its payrolls. And then came the Lockerbie tragedy. This is a fascinating account of what can go wrong with a pillar of strength of the U.S. industry, when its leaders lose their sense of direction & when their star employees-the Skygods-discover that they are mere mortals.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000023039391
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Author : Jim Swire,Peter Biddulph
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781788853057
A father details his loss, grief, and fight for the truth following his daughter’s death in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War II. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime. He maintained his innocence until his death in 2012. Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then, it has been revealed that the United States paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited. The book takes us along Dr. Swire’s journey as his initial grief and loss becomes a campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world’s most shocking events. Praise for The Lockerbie Bombing “It is hard to read this book without concluding that Dr Swire is right, and that for reasons that are both understandable and shameful, successive British governments repeated obstructed the investigation and they did so at the instigation of our American allies. . . . This book recounts Swire’s long and painful search for the truth about Lockerbie and his version is persuasive. It is disturbing too because, if he has it right, the Scottish judges who have now three times rejected appeals against the original verdict, have made it hard to have confidence in the integrity of our law.” —The Scotsman “Fascinating, compelling—a book about international intrigue, personal feelings, and ethics. Right at its heart is the search for truth.” —Kate Adie “Lockerbie's heartrending epitaph. . . . A shattering tale of grief and love.” —Daily Mail
Author : Allan Gerson,Jerry Adler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780061750335
President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable—as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right. This would require changing a bedrock principle of international law—a change that every government in the world feared and fought, including the United States itself. Working virtually alone at first, Allan Gerson, a former diplomat and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, took on the case and spent the next eight years on the families’ quest for justice. In this high-stakes game of international power politics and legal maneuvering, there were friendships, jobs, and reputations lost, but a precious principle—that of accountability under the law—was strengthened and preserved. Now Gerson and his co-author, Newsweek writer Jerry Adler, follow the threads of this extraordinary tale back to that deadly night over Lockerbie, Scotland—and forward into a new era of international justice, when terrorists will learn to fear the righteous retribution of their own victims.
Author : Steven Emerson,Brian Duffy
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Aircraft accidents
ISBN : 0708883478
Author : Joan Deppa,Maria Russell,Dona Hayes,Elizabeth Lynne Flocke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000860917
First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York’s Kennedy Airport, where families learned in the presence of the media that their loved ones had perished; Syracuse University, plunged into mourning the loss of 35 students from the school’s study abroad programme; and homes on both sides of the Atlantic, grief-stricken as news reached relatives of the passengers and crew. The authors, professors of communication at Syracuse University with years of media experience, began looking at the effects of such coverage because of what they experienced when the media came to cover the grieving on their campus. What they learned in the U.S. and the U.K. will interest those concerned about media coverage of crisis events, as well as those who communicate about them: journalists, survivors, public information officers, public relations practitioners, emergency support personnel, business and political leaders.
Author : Kenny MacAskill
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785901065
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed London Heathrow for New York. Shortly after take-off, a bomb detonated, killing all aboard and devastating the small Scottish town of Lockerbie below. Only one man has ever been convicted of the crime: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, though few believe that he acted alone. In 2009, a request was made by Libya for al-Megrahi's release from prison on compassionate grounds after he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The decision to grant or deny that request fell squarely and exclusively on the shoulders of one man: Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's Justice Secretary from 2007 to 2014. Detailing the build-up to the atrocity and the carnage left in its wake, MacAskill narrates the international investigation that followed and the diplomatic intrigue that saw a Scottish court convened in the Netherlands. He describes the controversial release of al-Megrahi, explains the international dimensions involved and lays bare the commercial and security interests that ran in the background throughout the investigation and trial. Finally, he answers how and why it happened – and who was really responsible for the worst terrorist attack to have occurred on British soil before or since.
Author : Ken Dornstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307386915
The "hugely satisfying" story (The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.
Author : Micheal Hurley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595299478
Smeared by cheap innuendo and false accusations alleging he is responsible for having allowed a bomb aboard Pan Am 103, Micheal T. Hurley, career law enforcement veteran, faces a dilemma as real as his lifetime savings: bet everything that truth would win out in a court of law or just surrender to that which he knows to be wrong. Succumb or fight? Capitulate or resist? I Solemnly Swear captures his answer to that dilemma and presents a diverse group of heroes and traitors, lawmen and outlaws, the innocent and the guilty who bounce between Seattle, Larnaca, London, Washington, DC, Frankfurt, and Fort Lauderdale. In an international game of cat and mouse, Hurley spends his last three years as a DEA Supervisory Special Agent being jerked around by a media that is all too willing to criticize the US Government and to mar Hurley's reputation as a competent international narcotics agent. This is his story.
Author : Great Britain. Department of Transport. Air Accidents Investigation Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034797535
Dated 6 August 1990. Includes 3 folded diagrams
Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750989657
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the deaths of a further eleven people on the ground. The psychological damage to traumatised residents would take many years to disappear; in some cases, it never did. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the crime – though few believe that he acted alone and some believe him innocent. Author Douglas Boyd presents evidence that it was Iran, not Libya, which was responsible for the attack. On 3 July 1988 (less than six months before the Lockerbie bombing), Iran Air flight 655 was in Iranian airspace on a Bandar Abbas-Dubai flight when it was shot down by missiles from the USS Vincennes sailing illegally into Iranian territorial waters. Government leader Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that blood should flow in revenge. However, this line of enquiry was quietly closed and Libya declared guilty because the White House wanted neighbouring Syria and Iran on-side for the build-up to the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Lockerbie: The Truth at last reveals the facts about what happened on that awful night at Lockerbie.
