Research of causes of explosion of the plane in the city of Lokerbi (flight 103 Pan Am) on December 21, 1988 in Scotland which carried away for itself lives of 259 people. 11 years of searches of the guilty terrorists who have enclosed a bomb the plane.
Министерство Транспорта Российской Федерации Федеральное агентство Воздушного Транспорта (Росавиация) ФГОУ ВПО “ Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет ГА” Кафедра иностранных языков Курсовая Работа По дисциплине “Английский язык” Тема: “Plane crash under Lokberi” Студента 1 курса, группы 210 Специализация ОЛР Факультета лётной эксплуатации Выполнил: Амбарцумов Армаис Григорьевич Санкт-Петербург The Explosion Pan Am Flight 103 taxied out of the gate at Heathrow Airport in London at 6:04 p.m. on December 21, 1988 - four days before Christmas. The 243 passengers and 16 crew members were preparing themselves for a relatively long flight to New York. After taxying for a few minutes, Flight 103, on a Boeing 747, took off at 6:25 p.m. They had no idea that they only had 38 more minutes to live. By 6:56 p.m., the plane had reached 31,000 feet. At 7:03 p.m., the plane exploded. Control had just been issuing Flight 103s clearance to start its oceanic segment of their journey to New York, when Flight 103s blip went off their radar. Seconds later the one large blip was replaced with multiple blips traveling downwind. For the residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, their nightmare was just about to begin. It was like meteors falling from the sky, described resident Ann Mc. Phail (Newsweek, Jan. 2, 1989, pg. 17). Flight 103 was over Lockerbie when it exploded. Many residents described the sky lighting up and a large, deafening roar. They soon saw pieces of the plane as well as pieces of bodies landing in fields, in backyards, on fences, and on rooftops. Fuel from the plane was already on fire before it hit the ground; some of it landed on houses, making the houses explode. One of the planes wings hit the ground in the southern area of Lockerbie. It hit the ground with such impact that it created a crater 155 feet long, displacing approximately 1500 tons of dirt. The nose of the airplane landed mostly intact in a field about four miles from the town of Lockerbie. Many said the nose reminded them of a fishs head cut off from its body. Wreckage was strewn over 50 square miles. Twenty-one of Lockerbies houses were completely destroyed and eleven of its residents were dead. Thus, the total death toll was 270 (the 259 aboard the plane plus the 11 on the ground). Why Was Flight 103 Bombed? explosion plane lokerbi Though the flight held passengers from 21 countries, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 hit the United States especially hard. Not only because 179 of the 259 people on board were Americans, but because the bombing shattered Americas sense of safety and security. Americans in general felt trodden upon by the unknown danger of terrorism. Though there is no doubt of the horror of this crash, this bomb and its aftermath was just the most recent in a string of similar events. As revenge for the bombing of a Berlin nightclub where two U.S. personnel were killed, President Ronald Reagan
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