History of the United Nations - Member States of the United Nations, Pan Am Flight 103 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Member states of the United Nations, Pan Am Flight 103, Diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the Somali Civil War, Attacks on United Nations personnel during the 2006 Lebanon War, Defamation of religions and the United Nations, History of United Nations peacekeeping, Official languages of the United Nations, Enlargement of the United Nations, United Nations in popular culture, Canal Hotel bombing, United Nations Regional Groups, International response to the Second Chechen War, Quartet on the Middle East, December 11, 2007 Algiers bombings, Compass Group, Eurest Support Services, Vagmarken, Jarring Mission, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Four Policemen, Bluewash. Excerpt: Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Wednesday 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route - a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA and named "Clipper Maid of the Seas" (view of this airplane in 1977) - was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, were also killed as large sections of the plane fell in the town and destroyed several houses, bringing total fatalities to 270. As a result, the event has been named by the media as the Lockerbie bombing. Pan Am Flight 103 was a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas. The jumbo jet was the fifteenth 747 built and was delivered in February 1970, one month after the first 747 entered service with Pan Am. The Maid of the Seas operated the transatlantic leg of Flight 103, which had originated in Frankfurt, West Germany, on a Boeing 727. At London Heathrow passengers and their luggage on the feeder flight transferred directly onto the Boeing 747, along with interline luggage not accompani...