European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday december 23,1988 flight 103 partial list of victims new York a pan am thursday re leased the names and addresses of the 16 Crew members of ils right 103, which crashed wednesday in Scotland killing All aboard Cik kit err in in tit so Cpl. Jim Marfa Unrur 53, Kensington. . Of Iraq a Fri or Kiy Wagner. In Pennington. Engineer Jutry Avrill 46, Walmir Kcf Calif purses i Midur bal sol Mary Murphy is Witk Tham England. . its Lon end inti. R lick Allt Dinis 1""jfin-Bain sit in Sirom. 51. Windsor. England Efi Abich ave Ymir. 44, Seine France. Noetic it Crit. 41,i Aru. France. Elk Kuhn. 43, Hanover Wii Larra Cathea 39, Madrid Spain. Paul Garron. I. Of Lii France. Myra Royal. 30, Hanwell London England. Slavic Frankm. 20. Chwick. London England. It a a Caho. Job Thlu. Convay. Liu Bolh Macalolooy. 27, Kiln Crabach. Wisl Germany. Jordyn reins. 26, Middlesex. England. Here is a partial lilt of passenger known 10 be aboard pan am right i of by family inc Mon Julian hits flan. 25. Nowlon. Maw. Sieve cur Roll fatty. . Ken John big suit. Har tidal. , Stephen Boland. 20, Nashua . Nicole Boulanger. 21, Shrewsbury mail. Folk in Brunner. 20. Hamburg. . By Rel Carlson Sweden. Bridge con Cannom England. Thomas Congannon. England. Scan conceit non England. Shannon David 19, Hunt Iarlori Conn. Sol Edgar Egu Tuan 24. Isi6 h Coom group. Rates Luln of Wuo Camany. John p. Lynn. 21, Mannl Villa no Limas Fuller. 1c. Michigan. David j. Gould 43, rim Burelli. Pamela Hurben. 19, balls Creek. Mich. Julie not Kelly 10. Dedham a. Alexander Lowenstein 21, matrix Ign no. Hot. 1 Douglas a Malicote. 22, he co 97th signal in Mannheim. Wisl Germany. Wendy g. Malicott 21, Mannheim. Lou Marcano. 33, Michigan Robert e. Mccolum 61, Wayne a Josh k. Miller s6,, John Mulroy. 59. Easl North port . Scan Mulrony 15, Sweden. Ingrid Mulrony. scr a circa 4q, Perry Burgr Ohio. Mark a rein. 44. New York cily. Diane re Necito 21, tour Longion. No. Koben t. 5c hit Attr 20. Warwick. . James Smith is. New Yore cily. Senior airman Luwanda Thomas 3slh tac Miu Ilc maim so. Hahn a3, Well Germany and Kcf Lluc Moulti old daughter. Aonia Tui Rii. 20, Franklin a Altai no Isi la. George Vii ilium 24. Tittl Tref div did Kkt. Nach Cwm Germany. Miriam Wolfe. 20. So Varna Park my senior airman Luwanda Thomas 38eh tsp missile main All and her Lorce Manly old daughter. Sol. Edgar Englc slim 24, i856lh Corurn group. Ramble in a e Solon is survived by his parents. Eupr and of Glens Falls. . Ill la. George Williams bad Krecu ankh. Crash from Page 1 cil he said the informal Ian a As from other town a Ihor tics. The plane smashed into the ground destroying 40 houses triggering an explosion at a Gas station and engulfing cars in flames the death toll on the plane Rose to 259 thursday when it was discovered that another flight attendant was on Board said Pamela Hanlon a pan am spokeswoman in new York the victims included at feast 20 . Service men 38 students from Syracuse University and an Asso a filled press Miccu Giveand five of his family members. Neither Scotlis Secretary Malcom Rifkind he chief British official a the Silc nor . Ambassador Charles Price would speculate on the possibility or sabotage but both the International air transport association and the British airline pilots association said that was the most 1 icly explanation. In Washington a . Government source said the . Embassy in Helsinki Finland received a Tele phone threat about two weeks ago from a person claiming to belong to the Abu Nodal group a Radical palestinian faction that has been implicated in terrorist attacks. The caller said a bomb would be placed aboard a pan am plane and that ii would be carried by a woman said the government source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The government source said that threat was the basis for posting notices at . Embassies. In Moscow the . Embassy 10 Days ago warned american diplomats that a bomb threat had been made against a pan am flight flying from Frankfurt West Germany to the United states sometime in de Cember. The warning left ii to the diplomats discretion whether o change travel plans. The threat information also was relayed to the de sense department which in turn informed its major subordinate commands including Neucom a Penta gon official said thursday the decision on following up on that information was left up to the commands the official said. Neucom spokesman la. Cmdr. Charles Franklin said late thursday that subordinate commands had been notified. However he did not know it service members were then told of the threat. At a news briefing thursday Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said Neucom has been Able to Tell me whether any of the units actually posted a notice to troops with regard to this particular press association quoted intelligence sources As say ing the lip came from Mossad the israeli intelligence service. It is believed the . Received the warning with some circumspection but advised All its embassies in Europe to Post an internal memo on their notice boards. Press association said. In Frankfurt the Airport Security chief said officials stepped up Security at Han am after receiving threats against the Carrier earlier this month. An Anonymous male caller to the associated press in London claimed responsibility for the disaster and said it was in retaliation for the shooting Down of an Iran air Airbus by the . Navy Cruiser Vince incs in july the Navy said he plane carrying 290 people Over the persian Gulf had been mistaken for an iranian fighter. At the time some islamic extremists vowed revenge but later iranian officials said they under stood the attack was a mistake. We the guardians of the islamic revolution Are undertaking this heroic execution in revenge of blow ing the Iran air plane by America a jew month ago and keeping the Inah j family in America. We Art very proud the caller said. Rhett Hung up quickly. The group also claimed responsibility for a Jay is 1987, car bombing in London that wounded Amir Hussein Amir Partz chairman of National move ment for iranian resistance and a former iranian lib inc minister tinder the Shah. Iran i prime minister Hussein Musavi categorically denied any iranian involvement in the crash. The denial came m a report by the official islamic Republic new Agency monitored m Nicosia Cyprus. Scotland Yard said the head of in anti terrorism Branch commander George Churchill Coltman had taken charge of tie London end of the crash. Transport Secretary Paul Channon told the House of commons that searchers had recovered both the air plane s flight recorders the vital electronic devices which Monitor All flight data and conversation by the pilots. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Prince an Drew the Duke Oyork visited Lockerbie. Rifkind the British Cabinet minister responsible Tor Scotland did the widespread wreckage of the plane indicated the aircraft clearly experienced some form of asked on Abc to s today show about the reported bomb threats Price said no we did Noi have any specific information such As thai in also on the Jet was John Mulroy 59. Director of International Comuni Caironi for the associated press. Wednesday s crash the worst in British history occurred 54 minutes after Takeoff from London s Heath Row Airport and followed an apparently routine climb to a cruising Altitude of 31.000 feet airline officials and traffic controllers said. The Only cause ruled out was a collision with another plane Freddie Ectman technical Secretary of the British air line pilots association said Only sabotage or structural failure could have destroyed the air plane at that height and it seems to me that the possibility of structural failure is almost too Remote to be considered pan am spokesman Jeffrey Kriendler said wednesday night in new York that the possibility of an explosion was Only speculation. Police super intendant Angus Kennedy told a news conference thursday Hal the bodies of Iso passengers including three children had been recovered and were taken Toa makeshift morgue in the town Hall around he town singed pillows and frag ments of clothing Lay scattered in Garden. Chunks of Metal some As Small As coins and some two feet in Diame Ter had sliced through roofs and shattered windows in Homes and cars. The wreckage was strewn Over a 10-mrle area and it appeared the Boeing 74ts nose fell to Earth before the main pan of the Jet struck Lockerbie. The plane s 243 passengers Many of them carrying Christmas packages included three children 38 under graduates studying abroad on a Syracuse University pro. Gram and the , commissioner for Namibia Demi Corsson of Sweden there also was a Crew of in aboard the plane. Meanwhile it was teamed that . Checks donated in Britain to Armenia s earthquake victims were aboard the crashed pan am jumbo Jet but not a Penny will be lost a soviet Bank said thursday. / a total of about $5.4 million has been received by he Bank in Cash checks and credit card donations since the dec. 7 disaster in the soul hem soviet Republic. The Jet had a history of maintenance problems including a fire cracks and severe corrosion information tiled with the Federal aviation administration showed. Fate from Page 1 could that his was t the same flight. But then pan am called us about 11 . Wednesday night and told us. I m really in a state Williams said he Felt fortunate that he was Able to see his son during a trip to West Germany lost summer. he was our on Chi a hcs Aid Puroll child Mccause of a paperwork delay wha soon Grimes ended up taking a later flight so she could be with her father who suffered a stroke and is seriously ill said her husband capt. Wayne Grimes of Pitburg a West Germany. " it was kind of Curie said Grimes the assistant officer in charge of the 22nd aircraft maim unit. She called and told me that she made Ilok and that she was t on the plane that crashed. 1 did t know a plane had crashed until this morning he said. In spite of the Grimes Good Fortune he said believe it or not pan am lost her at . Military installations in West Germany Christmas cheer quickly turned to a dark gloom after news of the crash spread among and their families. ,. ,. The flight which left. Frankfurt wednesday afternoon for Detroit with stops in London and new York included at least 20 . Service members among the 49 passengers travelling from Frankfurt to the United states Michelle Bonnell was afraid she inadvertently helped a woman get aboard the ill fated pan am jumbo Jet. / Bonnell who provides information to at a . Flight information Booth at Frankfurt Intima Lional Airport said she advised a woman the wife of a service member How to replace he lost passport in time to Board the plane. "1 gave her phone numbers and old her How to go to the . Consulate for a new passport said Bonnell her face streaked with tears,."god, i m afraid i helped her get on the Bonnell was at work at 7 . Thurs Day when relatives and friends of Passen Gers on the doomed Jet crowded around the Booth looking for news. They wanted to give us names of people on the plane. We did t have any names. I could just give them pan ans numbers Bonnell said. " some of the were bringing Home infants to see their grand parents for the first time while others were planning to Surprise their families with a visit Over he holidays Bonnell a ,. " i d seen them Here yesterday they were All just excited that they were going Home for Christmas she said. I just Don t believe this is for those making their Way Home for the holidays speculation Hal the plane May have been torn apart in midair bj1 a bomb provided More worries. Pfc. John Bissard of Hanau was scheduled to Fly Home to Michigan thursday. After hearing news of the crash wednes Day night Bissard immediately called his parents. It got me freaked out. But my parents said Don t worry about it. The safest Lime to Fly is right after a plane crash. Lightning never strikes twice " Bissard said that if he had a Choice be would prefer to stay in he United slut. I m sure it s More dangerous Here in Germany. I d rather be Back in the states he said. The possibility of terrorism reminded. Other service members thai such dangers Are a part of life in Europe. To the sol Dier and his family this is a daily thing said sgt Sherry Burgess of Frankfurt. You can be All in the Christmas mood and this brings it Home that you Are in a foreign country and there Are terrorists Here she said. Combat is something you least to accept. But this kind of situation is to Ife Ibiza it Sun in Tori court Vlinch in
