European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Deaths of students Shock Syracuse u. Friday. December s3, 1988 new York Al Syracuse University officials expressed Snoj wednes Day on learning Thiol .18 of i hair Slu Jinnis were booked pm the pan am jump Trucl hat crashed in Scolland with 258 people aboard und anxious relatives gathered Al Kennedy Airport. At the Campus in Syracuse More than 25,000 people attending a basketball game paused Tor a minute of silence and a Brief prayer by inc University minister. Chancellor Medvin Eggers called the crash in which scottish Pullet said no survivors were found the greatest trag Edy in the University s  it s hard to Pul into words the Joti and Shock this kind of thing gives a per son he said at a news conference. "1 kept asking How will we face is a Cal Tew  neither i an am nor the University would release passenger names saying the Lisl still Hail to be compiled and rela Tives notified there were 3k Syracuse students hooked on pan am flight 103 from Lon Don to new York and 36 were con firmed 10 have been aboard Eggers said. University officials Plati cd a prayer service wednesday night. They said they would Hare cancelled the game bul heard of the crash Loo late. The students were part of a group of about 250. Mostly juniors so Lecich for study in Europe based on their academic standing and ability to adapt to a foreign country said lore Halh associate i Roclor of inc univ Cisily s division of in Ternai Jonil i my abroad. The program includes the Cost of their flight  made it Cir own arrangements Forb Tom travel. Heath said. The semester s program it ended saturday. Bight 103 was Schedu Taeiao Slop in i new York where some a assert s were to change planes and depart for Del flit under the same flight number 16 arrives Early thursday. Al the pan am terminal Al John f. Kennedy International Airport people arriving to meet the plane were escorted Loa private area by Security personnel. A woman whose son a 21-year-old Syracuse University student was on the plane found herself surrounded by Cam eras. Sobbing she looked up and said look my son is dead what else do you want a red Cross spokeswoman Carla a Cluj said the room where friends and relatives of about 25 families were taken was like a Hospital wailing  there s a lot of fear Here s a to of Tola numbness she said some people Syracuse  Amyjo Etc Leigh Rishi and Cathy Grassland tearfully Hue a arc  Imi ment of silence la ure Syracuse University basketball game wednesday night. Fearful relatives wait for news official from . Aboard flight 103london Ai Everard Whiten Csc joined Small group of shaken relatives of passengers who boarded pan am flight 103 Al Heathrow Airport wednesday night and voiced the frail Hope that his Young Cousin had missed the plane which crashed in Scotland. People change their minds he said. Whitehouse had taken the 25-year-old bostonian Julian bin nolo to the Airport in the afternoon to catch the flight which crashed into the Village of lock Erbie with 2s8 people on Board at about 7 15 . He returned to the Airport after hearing news of the crash. He s a Post graduate Al Cambridge University Andis quite Brilliant said while House. He delayed his flight by one Day because he wanted to see a Friend of his who was ill in Cambridge. I be come Here because 1 could t get through on the phones. His brother rang me from the Stales worst crashes by the Ash willed press Here is a list of some of the worst commercial aviation disasters involving Boeing 747s nov. 28. 1987160 Are killed when a South Afri can airways 747 crashes off he Island of Mauritius inthe Indian Ocean. Aug. 12, 198s in the worst single plane Accident 520 people Are killed when a Japan airlines hoeing 747crashes into a Mountain on a Domestic flight Junt 23,1985 All 329 people aboard die when an air India Boeing 747 crashes Oftle coast of Ireland.   the crush to a ice Roris Ptan led bomb. Nov. 27, 1983 181 Are killed when an Vianca Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid s Barajas Airport. Sept. I 1983 a korean air lines 747 is shot Down by a Ovici Jel fighter after Hying through soviet airspace rear Sakhalin Island. All 269 people aboard arc killed. V Jan. I 1978 213 die when an air India 747 in route to the Middle East kingdom of Dubai crashes less than two minutes after taking off fro Bombay. March 27, 1977 582 people arc killed in a Colli Sion of two boeing747s operated by pan american and Kim Al the Airport on Tenerife in Spain s Canary islands. And i told him i was going to the Airport. I wanted tomake sure he was on the plane As things changed Al the last moment people change their  police officers escorted one elderly couple who walked Down the Airport s corridor holding hands tears in their eyes. Two earful women who would not reveal their names said we be been ringing All the time. We be been trying 10 phone new York and the London num Bers and they arc just engaged. We be come Here be cause we think a Friend of ours is on the  Heathrow staff members appeared Pale and stunned by the news Aboul the night which had left terminal three. They were the usual mix of holidaymakers an businessmen one Airport Security mini said. Many of them going Back Home for the holidays. They seemed in a pc Christmas spirit carrying presents among their Luggage. There appeared to be a lot of women and children among the  United nations a the evening before the african Colony of Namibia was to gain Independence . Commissioner for Namibia by Rel Carls son of Sweden boarded the doomed pan am Jel bound for new York to see the Accord signed. Flight 103 crashed in Scotland about an hour after Carlsson s Assis Lani Malti Kamon said the commissioner called her to say he was boarding the plane. Carlsson was to have been an honoured witness thurs Day morning when the foreign ministers of South Africa Cuba and Angola signed an Accord guaranteeing Pretoria will end its 73-year Rule Over Namibia and thai 50,000 cuban troops will withdraw from Angola. Carlsson 50, had been commissioner for Namibia since july 1987, the United nations in 1966 revoked n league of nations mandate giving South Africa i height to govern Namibia. Rescuers at Lockerbie scan the scene of wednesday s jetliner crash As burning Homes glow in the background