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Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, while the Boeing 747 "Clipper Maid of the Seas" was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard. [1]
The 41-year-old pilot, Murat Akhatovich Itkulov (Russian: Мурат Ахатович Иткулов), with close to 7,900 flight hours (4,181 of them on the Tu-154), who was normally the first officer, did not officially serve on duty, because this was the captain's assessment flight; 50-year-old Sergei Gennadyevich Kharlov (Russian ...
On May 29, 1972, the third day of the show, the pilot of a Kite Rider (a variety of hang glider) was killed in a crash. This was to be the first of the three air deaths during the Air Show. [197] [198] On June 3, 1972, a second death occurred at the Transpo '72 Air Show, during a sport plane pylon race.
Power lines were also damaged in the crash, and one person, a local doctor listed as a co-owner of the aircraft, was killed in the crash. [33] NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams apologizes for incorrectly stating on numerous occasions that he had been aboard a helicopter shot down by enemy fire while covering the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 ...
On October 15, a 28-year-old airport employee was arrested in connection with the explosions and was booked on charges of possession of an explosive or destructive device near an aircraft. [ 331 ] [ 332 ] [ 333 ] On October 18, a 41-year-old airport employee was arrested in connection with the second explosion, and was booked on suspicion of ...
President James A. Garfield with James G. Blaine after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, took place at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:20 AM on Saturday, July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office.
In September 2018, a government photographer admitted he, at Trump's request, [177] edited pictures of the inauguration to make the crowd appear larger: "The photographer cropped out empty space 'where the crowd ended' for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his ...