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Flight 103 (other)
Flight 103 commonly refers to Pan Am Flight 103, blown up in 1988 by a bomb (the "Lockerbie bombing"). Flight 103 may also refer to: :''Listed chronologically'' * Air New Zealand Flight 103, a DC-10 that helped find a lost Cessna in the Pacific, 1978 * Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103, a midair break-up of a Boeing 737 over Taiwan, 1981 * Copterline Flight 103, Sikorsky helicopter crashed into the Gulf of Finland, 2005 * Buddha Air Flight 103, Beechcraft crashed on approach to Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011 See also * * STS-103, a successful Space Shuttle mission in December 1999 *'' The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story'', a 1990 television drama film about the Lockerbie bombing {{Disambiguation 0103 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Am Flight 103
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, the Boeing 747 "Clipper Maid of the Seas" was destroyed by a bomb while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard. Large sections of the aircraft crashed in a residential street in Lockerbie, killing 11 residents. With a total of 270 fatalities, the event, which became known as the Lockerbie bombing, is the deadliest Terrorism in the United Kingdom, terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom. Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in 1991. After protracted negotiations and United Nations sanctions, in 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air New Zealand Flight 103
On 22 December 1978, a Cessna 188 aircraft, flown by an American private pilot, became lost over the Pacific Ocean. The only other aircraft in the area that was able to assist was a commercial Air New Zealand flight. After several hours of searching, the crew of the commercial flight located the lost Cessna and helped it reach Norfolk Island, where the plane landed safely. The incident Jay Prochnow, a retired United States Navy pilot, was delivering a Cessna 188 from the United States to Australia. Prochnow had a colleague who was flying another Cessna 188 alongside him. The long trip would be completed in four stages. On the morning of 20 December, both pilots took off from Pago Pago, American Samoa, Pago Pago. His colleague crashed on takeoff but was unharmed. Prochnow landed and set out the following day to Norfolk Island. When Prochnow believed he was approaching Norfolk Island, he was unable to see the island. He informed Air Traffic Control (ATC), but at this point, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
