European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday december 23, 1988 the stars and stripes f Light 103 Village scarred by tragic plane crash Lockerbie. Scotland Lal l hardly n place in this Market town escaped the crash of can am right a. The jumbo Jet i Nicias skin and body Lily scattered on streets and sidewalks and houses bore soldering testimony Lotin Force of the explosion when sections or the aircraft slammed into tin.1 Village wednesday night. In Hie cd Nice of of 2,500 residents 3 Complete aircraft engine Lay embedded in a Street Early thursday windows in Homes and shops were smashed and searchers crunched Over tic broken Glass and crumpled hits of Elal. A raw of White houses Pablo ends and Walls Mill sending soldered in the Early Momine darkness. Clouds of smoke Rose from a huge Crater gouged by a chunk oflhi1 crashing plane near the Highway in one end of own. A Large piece of fuselage soldered in Rad alongside it was a wrecked car. Almost Flash lend. One of five hit by the plane. Townspeople and Rescue workers combed the area for Lodies and carried Ilie victims into a makeshift mortuary in he town Hall. Residents anxious for news about friends and Radii is were allowed inside i he Sandstone build i us Tocheck the lists it survivors from Llic most Hadly affected streets. Earlier sunni d villagers Ood in Small knots watching he police firefighters sol Diers and ambulances go Back and Forth. Rescue workers flinched As a Chimney Sud Denly crafted to the ground. La seems almost incongruous that Inthis quite and peaceful place this awful thing has said Donald Dewar the opposition labor 1 arty s spokesman on cml ii affairs. Survivors were being housed wish friends in the lightly knit Community i a to mob a nexis bit i serving As a bulletin Board for the whereabouts of the evacuees. The worst tiling is the uncertainly kind a woman would no give her name we know there were u a car set afire by Hsiuin chunks of Pun am s flight 103 after its tin wednesday night in Lockerbie a Frilund lot of people on the plane but where Are the local people Tai a close Community and we still just Don t know who might be alive or Stool Maxwell and a neighbor had fasts re s by a blast and helped injured people gel Clear of the scene. With telephones knocked out he used the radio in his Van to Call for emergency service and ii n helped Clear debris from the roads to enable emergency vehicles to gel through. Bungalows in Sherwood Crescent and Sherwood Park appeared to have caught the full Force of the trash and police said no one inside the struck houses had sur Vived. Lion Ken roof lists and pieces of Neial probably from ii sri Craft Lay every where and houses la a were Noi Hil were evacuated in Case of Gas leaks three Miles cast of Lockerbie the cockpit of the aircraft Lay almost intact on Banks kill. It was about 50 feel fro the Road near a Church with bodies Cut iced nearby. Barcly 15 Miles from the English Bor Der. Lockerbie is set in the Middle Jofanna Dajc the narrow Valley of the Annan River the Quarry near Lockerbie is celebrated among Fossil Hunters for foot prints of Dinosaur. The Village s people manufacture cheese and Cream and. Woolen goods and hold popular livestock fairs. For grieving students it still has t Rea i by hit1 Syracuse. , a 11 us Trees clustered around syn Cuic univer Siviy s Chapel t Moi irn he j8 Studeni aboard the doomed i an am flight listen to prayers and utter the common refrain it can t be it still has t really said Chris Lealy. N Junior from Seaford . He a Iid one of his friends was among the students in a Syracuse in Narvils Frog a who were booked on the Neil Muir crashed lems Day in Scotland. A Iwitha Fitzi 5 say there were no survivors among the 25 j people aboard. Flight 10.j, Ivl Iii h was in r mile from London to new York. It s hard to think of christinas this year. 1 think about , who i seen heir kids since August Healy said its lit1 was joined by j group of anguished friends at Hendriks memorial Chapel night. New York Coy. Mario Cuomo issued a statement thursday Espres sine his my tue and ordering thai lags at All state facilities be in own at Hall Slait through Sal. Urday. For All. The lives lost and Mariie ulary to inc Syra Cuse University Community we extend our must pro found and Heartfelt sympathies and1 our prayers for strength Cuomo mid. Lils where on Campus wednesday nigh i More than25,000 people attending a basketball Jmc paused fur to minute of silence and to tin of prayer by the Gnu Erst Mai Salt it Isicc the Chapel about $00 mourners Sal in silence and lil candles at a Pravir Ici site led by chaplain of five faiths the Kev. I jul Kowale Avci. A Frol slant Chap lain said thu filled a need in the Miniver itly Community we gathered by Cav we needed Unicorn a together. The students needed to. Demonstrate sheir sorrow to be Wilh one another Kowalewski did it s Christmas they re students and Joung everything v syr Arur University senior h Amberly Marks reads to he new s Hal 38 follow in Law sch Mil s Viu Tsea program Here aboard the Doumad pan am Nihl. Her Futh a of cd Fum i Ark ,, comforts her Al tit Albany . Nun la Airi wirl in Jill. Kini Beily and lit hers in the or Domni had taken tin earlier in .1 is built into this " the38 students were part of a group 350, mostly juniors to study in Turo a based on their. Atad Init standing and ability to adapt of a Fords i Yum a said Oxire health. Ais Imti. Itin Toi of the in mrs s Dos Iii of it Malion it pig rims abroad the. Program includes the Coil of their flight Over but students made their own fur Meluin travel. Heath semester s program ended sat urday. University Chancellor Melvin Eggers called the crash Ope of inc greatest Syracuse this is the Saddest Day of my life lie said. We Velosta some pm the brightest talented most Beautiful Peu pc. It s hard to in Russ our pm Essaid the fact that the crash May have been the re sutly of a error ii act made in even harder for the vie ims families and friends. --.--. _ the first Impact of such an event plummets us into almost repair Fegers said thursday morning on Khz to s today learn thai in a deliberate net is just beyond belief some thing we Tan t Cope with. Among mourners Al the University was.-. Barahu flail r of South Orange n.j., a senior who Learned that a Friend had been returning on the an am plane. "1 told her what a . E it would he to study abroad i Ijiro Siirid in a cracking courage her. Then you come Back to hear this. Whal can i say nearby people clustered in Small huddles 10 seek Consolation. I Ain and disbelief were cd Ideal in mos faces. Friends hugged one another and cried together. It Eari i be was heard repeatedly Anvid the sobs in the chill is the mood thai s All. Around said Junior Scott Meach priming to emotional people Chapel s front Steps. It s really so hard to believe said Meach Dent of West Hoogin Mictil mich., who. Snid one of his Fri termly brai hrs Wai on the jetliner. A Hilp bring people together to share the George h touch a Junior in geography Ilso Ramc to Pray Tor a Fra Krumly the thing about this Couch said is Hal Al our. feel so Beianu see in happening of television but Don t think it will Ever happen la us
