For many, including 35 students from Syracuse University who had been studying abroad, it . Apart from the flight crew, I think there were 13 first class passengers. Matthew Kevin Gannon, 34, Los Angeles, Calif. Kenneth Raymond Garczynski, 37, North Brunswick, N.J. Kenneth James Gibson, Army specialist four, 20, Romulus, Mich. William David Giebler, 29, London, England, Olive Leonora Gordon, 25, London, Englandg, Linda Susan Gordon-Gorgacz, 39, London, England. A total of 270 people were killed when a bomb ripped apart Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on . By the time of Lockerbie it was just a job. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Lynne Carol Hartunian, 21, Schenectady, N.Y. (SUNY Oswego). Tragic Plane Crashes. of Art). Thats when we made the announcement and started working closer with the police. Last picture of Paul Walker alive, before getting into the porsche that crashed. It was a year later that we finally travelled to Lockerbie because we found the thought of the trip very difficult. Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the atrocity and Tripoli admitted blame. The defence's claim that he is the victim of an injustice essentially rests on the argument that it was not. The remaining wreckage of the nose section of Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland on 12/21/1988, stored in Roger Windley's scrapyard in Lincolnshire. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). EXCLUSIVE: Kate Anderson says she could hear the bang of the explosion from three miles away. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Public confirmation of what had been suspected from the outset came on December 28, when investigators announced that traces of high explosive had been found and the plane had been brought down by a bomb. Mary Edna Smith, Army sergeant, 34, Kalamazoo, Mich. Lyndsey ann Somerville, 10, Lockerbie, Scotland, Rosaleen Later Somerville, 40, Lockerbie, Scotland, Geraldine Anne Stevenson, 37, Surrey, England, Hannah Louise Stevenson, 10, Surrey, England, John Charles Stevenson, 38, Surrey, England, Charlotte Ann Stinnett,36, Duncanville, Texas, Michael Gary Stinnett, Army specialist, 26, Duncanville, Texas, Stacey Leanne Stinnett, 9, Duncanville, Texas, Flora Margaret Swire, 24, London, England. On December 28, investigators announced they had discovered traces of high explosives in the wreckage, confirming that the incident was an attack rather than an accident. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie . Photos: Family Archives . Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi died in Tripoli in 2012. Do you have a story or video for The Scottish Sun? Previously unseen photographs, taken by Mr Giesecke the morning after the incident and published today in the Scottish Mail on Sunday, show the extent of the destruction to the quiet neighbourhood in which he still lives on the eastern edge of the town. 'As soon as we got close the cockpit you could tell it was a jumbo jet. Since the tragedy, Colin has formed a bond with relatives of some of the 270 victims. 'The hedge was near an old farm building where another passenger had fallen in to the barn roof, still sitting in their passenger seat. 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. By 7.03pm, a deadly combination of mangled fuselage and burning aviation fuel had rained down upon the town of Lockerbie with lethal force, with the ensuing fireball incinerating homes in the town's Sherwood Crescent and, with it, 11 residents. James Andrew Campbell Pitt, 24, South Hadley, Mass. By then we were no longer finding whole people.'. All 259 passengers and crew died along with 11 others on the ground who were killed by falling debris. There were families who were devastated. , updated When we got a call from Pan Am later that day to say they had Lindsey's boarding pass and she had been on the plane, we were heartbroken. We could tell from the distribution of the wreckage.. Just over the fence, in Rosebank Crescent, a large chunk of the fuselage also took out whole sides of properties. 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Stephanie Leigh Williams, 1, Crown Point, N.Y. Miriam Luby Wolfe, 20, Severna Park, Md. Rescue . And 31,000ft below, 11 Lockerbie locals lost their lives when debris from the Boeing 747 crashed into residential ares, destroying 21 homes. Steve said: The people in there died on impact. He was jailed for 27 years but died of prostate cancer aged 60 in 2012 after being released on compassionate grounds in 2009. More Local News to Love Start today for 50% off Expires 3/6/23. Getty Images. It is not. They cooked us a Christmas dinner.. In August 2017, the family of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi lodged a new bid to appeal against his conviction. The cargo area has been the site of explosives in past bombings, including that of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Its like being a policeman or a fireman. "A larger, dark, delta shaped object, resembling an aircraft wing, landed about the same time in the Sherwood area of the town.". 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'There was an eerie silence as we walked,' said Mark. It has been an absolute privilege for me to find so much good in all these people who lost loved ones, and to learn their stories. The crash occurred decades ago, I think first off let's refresh the setting for the crash as we. The explosion, caused by a terrorist bombing, resulted in the deaths of all 259 passengers on board the Boeing 747, and 11 people on the ground. In the end, it was very heart-warming. Thousands of cars, stretching bumper to bumper for 15 miles along the motorway. ', 'We'd been used to families visiting in the streets around in similar circumstances and so their visit wasn't really unexpected. Many still believe he was scapegoated for the attack, and there are still many unanswered questions as to exactly who was behind the blast. When first reports of a crash came through, many assumed it was a low-flying military training flight which had come to harm. John Michael Gerard Ahern, 26, Rockville Centre, N.Y. Sarah Margaret Aicher, 29, London, England. Ian spent Christmas Day after the first anniversary with Betty Thomas, mother of victim Yvonne Owen, 29, and grandmother to Bryony, aged 20 months. Mar 15, 2021 - The Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives is part of the Syracuse University Archives in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Libraries. 21st December 1988 - Sandy Gall at ITN with the first details of the Lockerbie disaster 'We formed a line across the field. Thatcher. Walker's body is still fairly intact. Owned by the Nickum and Holstein families, Mr. Riley lived there as a guest from 1893 until his death in 1916. Asaad Eidi Vejdany, 46, South Great Neck, N.Y. Milutin Velimirovich, 35, Middlesex, England, Nicholas Andreas Vrenios, 20, Washington, D.C. (SU). He recalled: I couldnt believe it. Video Transcript. Published: 13:07 GMT, 3 December 2018 | Updated: 18:32 GMT, 3 December 2018. Meanwhile, the fuel-laden wing section came down on the Sherwood area on the western edge of Lockerbie, adjoining the A74 road, now a motorway. On Wednesday 21 December, 1988, just after 7pm, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded above the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the . At 7:02 p.m., 27 minutes after leaving London, the plane exploded, raining fragments on the city of Lockerbie. And the work done by his team has led to lifesaving advances in aircraft technology. 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. In 1988, a bombing took down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. Flight 103 passengers: John Ahern, Sarah Aicher, John Akerstrom, Ronald Alexander, Thomas Ammerman, Martin Apfelbaum, Rachel Asrelsky, William Atkinson, Judith Atkinson, Clare Bacciochi, Harry Bainbridge, Stuart Barclay, Jean Bell, Julian Benello, Lawrence Bennett, Philip Bergstrom, Alistair Berkley, Michael Bernstein, Steven Berrell, Surinder Bhatia, Kenneth Bissett, Diane Boatman-Fuller, Stephen Boland, Glen Bouckley, Paula Bouckley, Nicole Boulanger, Francis Boyer, Nicholas Bright, Daniel Browner, Colleen Brunner, Timothy Burman, Michael Buser, Warren Buser, Steven Butler, William Cadman, Fabiana Caffarone, Hernan Caffarone, Valerie Canady, Gregory Capasso, Timothy Cardwell, Bernt Carlsson, Richard Cawley, Frank Ciulla, Theodora Cohen, Eric Coker, Jason Coker, Gary Colasanti, Bridget Concannon, Sean Concannon, Thomas Concannon, Tracey Corner, Scott Cory, Willis Coursey, Patricia Coyle, John Cummock, Joseph Curry, William Daniels, Gretchen Dater, Shannon Davis, Gabriel Della-Ripa, Joyce DiMauro, Gianfranca DiNardo, Peter Dix, Om Dixit, Shanti Dixit, David Dornstein, Michael Doyle, Edgar Eggleston, Turhan Ergin, Charles Fisher, Clayton Flick, John Flynn, Arthur Fondiler, Robert Fortune, Paul Freeman, James Fuller, Ibolya Gabor, Amy Gallagher, Matthew Gannon, Kenneth Garczynski, Kenneth Gibson, William Giebler, Olive Gordon, Linda Gordon-Gorgacz, Anne Gorgacz, Loretta Gorgacz, David Gould, Andre Guevorgian, Nicola Hall, Lorraine Halsch, Lynne Hartunian, Anthony Hawkins, Pamela Herbert, Rodney Hilbert, Alfred Hill, Katherine Hollister, Josephine Hudson, Melina Hudson, Sophie Hudson, Karen Hunt, Roger Hurst, Elizabeth Ivell, Khalid Jaafar, Robert Jeck, Paul Jeffreys, Rachel Jeffreys, Kathleen Jermyn, Beth Johnson, Mary Johnson, Timothy Johnson, Christopher Jones, Julianne Kelly, Jay Kingham, Patricia Klein, Gregory Kosmowski, Minas Kulukundis, Ronald LaRiviere, Robert Leckburg, William Leyrer, Wendy Lincoln, Alexander Lowenstein, Lloyd Ludlow, Maria Lurbke, William Mack, Douglas Malicote, Wendy Malicote, Elizabeth Marek, Louis Marengo, Noel Martin, Diane Maslowski, William McAllister, Daniel McCarthy, Robert McCollum, Charles McKee, Bernard McLaughlin, Jane Melber, John Merrill, Suzanne Miazga, Joseph Miller, Jewel Mitchell, Richard Monetti, Jane Morgan, Eva Morson, Helga Mosey, Ingrid Mulroy, John Mulroy, Sean Mulroy, Karen Noonan, Daniel O'Connor, Mary O'Neil, Anne Otenasek, Bryony Owen, Gwyneth Owen, Laura Owens, Martha Owens, Robert Owens, Sarah Owens, Robert Pagnucco, Christos Papadopoulos, Peter Peirce, Michael Pescatore, Sarah Philipps, Frederick Phillips, James Pitt, David Platt, Walter Porter, Pamela Posen, William Pugh, Crisostomo Quiguyan, Rajesh Ramses, Anmol Rattan, Garima Rattan, Suruchi Rattan, Anita Reeves, Mark Rein, Diane Rencevicz, Louise Rogers, Edina Roller, Janos Roller, Zsuzsana Roller, Hanne Root, Saul Rosen, Andrea Rosenthal, Daniel Rosenthal, Arnaud Rubin, Elyse Saraceni, Scott Saunders, Theresa Saunders, Johannes Schauble, Robert Schlageter, Thomas Schultz, Sally Scott, Amy Shapiro, Mridula Shastri, Joan Sheanshang, Irving Sigal, Martin Simpson, Cynthia Smith, Ingrid Smith, James Smith, Mary Smith, Geraldine Stevenson, Hannah Stevenson, John Stevenson, Rachael Stevenson, Charlotte Stinnett, Michael Stinnett, Stacey Stinnett, James Stow, Elia Stratis, Anthony Swan, Flora Swire, Marc Tager, Hidekazu Tanaka, Andrew Teran, Arva Thomas, Jonathan Thomas, Lawanda Thomas, Mark Tobin, David Trimmer-Smith, Alexia Tsairis, Barry Valentino, Thomas Van-Tienhoven, Asaad Vejdany, Nicholas Vrenios, Peter Vulcu, Janina Waido, Thomas Walker, Kesha Weedon, Jerome Weston, Jonathan White, Bonnie Williams, Brittany Williams, Eric Williams, George Williams, Stephanie Williams, Miriam Wolfe, Chelsea Woods, Dedera Woods, Joe Woods, Joe Woods Jr., Andrew Wright, Mark Zwynenburg. From former Spice Girls to Desperate Housewives, these female celebs have suffered some seriously embarrassing bikini malfunctions . Lockerbie pair 'could have survived' Wreckage: 259 on board and 11 on the ground died . This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. At the height the plane had been flying, winds were more than 100 knots. Along with the bodies which littered the ground were still wrapped Christmas presents. 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. Although Libya and one of its former intelligence agents have been held responsible, the identity of the perpetrators is still far from certain. James Bruce Macquarrie, 55, Kensington, N.H. Douglas Eugene Malicote, Army specialist four, 22, Lebanon, Ohio. 02:15 GMT 16 Dec 2018 See you from 4:30-7am weekdays on 10News Brightside! Colin Dorrance was on duty outside the town hall when a farmer drove down from the hills in a pick-up truck with debris from Pan Am 103 and, placed in the front seat, the body of a young girl. (SU). She added: 'It was one of Lindsey's friends who called me to check which flight she was on as she'd heard there had been a crash. Jets. It was the cockpit and it was about 50 yards from our house.. The main fuselage (body of plane) landed on the ground together . No trace was ever found of some of the victims, who were vaporised in the fireball. The cockpit had been ripped from the rest of the jet during the bomb blast. The mission of the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives is to collect, preserve, and make available for research materials that document the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie . For other inquiries, Contact Us. SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Here's a list of the 270 people killed 25 years ago today in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. Lockerbie is changed. By Anne Madelene Gorgacz, 76, Newcastle, Pa. Andre Nikolai Guevorgian, 32, Seacliffe, N.Y. Nicola Jane Hall, 23, Sandton, South Africa. "Just his upper body can be seen.". SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Here's a list of the 270 people killed 25 years ago today in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. I later read that the pilot and engineer were still strapped in their seats.'. New images have shown much of the plane, its distinctive blue and white Pan Am livery still clearly visible, remains stored behind a high fence at Windleys Salvage in Tattershall. He was jailed for 27 years but died of prostate cancer aged 60 in 2012 after being released on compassionate grounds in 2009. Road convoys removed thousands of pieces of shattered metal and stored them at an Army base in nearby Longtown in Cumbria. When I first joined the Branch I really thought that I couldnt handle it, but I did. For the airline crew who had lost their colleagues, it was an emotional journey. All 259 people on board were killed, and 11 individuals on the ground also died. Click here to upload yours. Philipps, 20, Newtonville, Mass. A fuselage section came down on streets in Rosebank, on the northern edge of the town. It felt like you were living in a film. Morning anchor with 10News. Suddenly, coming over high ground, they saw it. Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas, including 35 Syracuse University students participating in a study abroad program. If they want to go on to the Main Commemoration, they will be most welcome.x text. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there . 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. The Crown Office came and took it all away to Scotland.. Many were children and young people, with 41% being 25 years old or younger. The first will take place at 9am at Rosebank Crescent, where many of the bodies of the Pan Am passengers and crew were to be found. Workers cover the body of a victim of Pan Am flight 103 . He was based at their HQ in Farnborough, Hants, and Pan Am arranged a plane to fly investigators to Carlisle so their probe at the crash site could start as quickly as possible. The Lockerbie bombing: Timeline of key events. But for Mr Giesecke, now 65, the discovery that night of one of those lost souls Lindsey Otenasek, the 21-year-old Syracuse University student who landed on his hedge in the back garden forged an unbreakable bond of friendship with her family in the United States. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. March 24, 2015 / 6:58 PM / CBS NEWS. Robert Gerard Fortune, 40, Jackson Heights, N.Y. Stacie Denise Franklin, 20, San Diego, Calif. James Ralph Fuller, 50, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Ibolya Robertine Gabor, 79, Budapest, Hungary. In photos: The 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing. (SU), Bridget Concannon, 53, Oxfordshire, England, Thomas Concannon, 51, Oxfordshire, England, Tracey Jane Corner, 17, Sheffield, England, Scott Cory, 20, Old Lyme Court, Conn. (SU), Willis Larry Coursey, 40, San Antonio, Texas. Lorraine Frances Halsch, 31, Fairport, N.Y. Lynn Hartunian, 21, who was a student at SUNY Oswego, was one of the passengers killed on Pan Am Flight 103. Diane Marie Rencevicz, 21, Burlington, N.J. Louise Ann Rogers, 20, Olney, Md. Kate, now 56, said: It was blowing a hoolie that night. The Victims. collared dove,close-up of pigeon perching on tree,ecclefechan,lockerbie,united kingdom,uk - lockerbie stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Some of the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 after it crashed onto the town of Lockerbie in Scotland, on 21st December 1988. Rodas, meanwhile, is "badly burned" as well, the source says. I felt tearful as Peggy picked up one and I remember telling her: 'You take that home and keep that in memory of Lindsey. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Mr Dorrance said it looked as if she was just sleeping. Michael Warren Buser, 34, Ridgefield Park, N.J. William Martin Cadman, 32, London, England, Timothy Michael Cardwell, 21, Cresco, Pa. (SU). Email us atscoop@the-sun.co.ukor call 0141 420 5200, Scots iconic household name 'ceases trading' after 58 years, Man charged after Scots dad-of-three 'shot dead on doorstep', Scottish teacher strikes SUSPENDED following new 'historic' pay offer, Mum identified after dead baby is found on heathland, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. The 259 people on board the New York-bound Boeing 747 are killed, along . Among them were Lindsey's parents, Richard, an eminent neurosurgeon, and his wife, Peggy, from Baltimore, Maryland.

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