European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Pagas the stars and stripes saturday december 24,1988 shocked families trying to rearrange lives new York one wanted to be an actress. An other hoped to become a clinical psychologist a third aspired to work with retarded children. Many Hopes and dreams were dashed when pan american flight 103 crashed wednesday in Scotland in route to new York City and Detroit. For the older victims who include the treasurer of Salomon Bros and an executive associated Cress it is spouses and children who must rearrange their lives. Peter . Who owns a Small plastics firm in new Jersey struggled with the realization that his son Alexander was aboard flight 103. It s just a devastating thing something we Jas can t come to grips with til this Point Lowenstein said. The one thing 1 would never fathom is How you Deal with the death of a child and that s what we revealing with right now Lowenstein of Mendham n.j., said Alexander 21, a senior at Syracuse University had just finished a semester studying English in London. Alex whose younger brother Lucas is a Junior at Syracuse wanted la become a clinical psychologist his father said. He was an average wonderful son Lowenstein said. He was an avid surfer and scuba diver. He had a very special Way with his Peers lots of friends an enjoyed life very much Many relatives in the new York area first heard inc news in radio reports that began about 3 . Wednes Day. Lows Stcin was driving Home at the time. First they said the plane was lost on radar an presumed crashed and it got progressively ivors he said. I knew the flight he was on because i was going to pick him in Barbara Matthews Weldon s living room in the , presents lie under the Christ Mas tree Fork Sha 20, her daughter and Timothy Johnson Kesha s boy Friend. Both were on flight 103. "1 Don t know How i m going to make it said wee Don a Telephone operator who has been working a second Job to put her daughter through Syracuse. Her retired husband. Acc Soboci quietly As a television reporter conducted an interview in Kesha s bedroom Lull of stuffed animals and celebrity posters. Three years ago. The Weldon s son Marlon died in an automobile Accident in Chapel Hill . Another son Terrence is the Only surviving child. Kasha a Junior was returning from a semester in London. She Sang in the Hureh choir said her aunt Dorothy Hudson. She was a sociology major. Sti wanted to work with mentally retarded Johnson a College student from Neptune no had gone to accompany Kasha Home. They visited Paris briefly first. Several mourning relatives of other victims said the were unable to speak to a reporter others seemed anxious to share their sense of s something you cannot imagine and cannot pre pare for said Daniel Cohen a writer in port Jervis n.y., whose Only child Theodora was on flight 103. It s not going to get better for a Long Cohen said neighbors turned out in Force to Comfort him and his wife Susan who was under sedation. It s a Small town and everyone has been As Nice As could be he said. It keeps you alive but it does t keep you going Theodora 20 was a Syracuse drama student who had been studying theater in London. She had appeared in several summer Slock performance including a production of the Fant Sticks her fall Craid. She got a part in Hansel and Gratcl in the fourth Grade and from that moment on theater was her life,1 Cohen said All her friends were theater people. She wot extremely Lively extremely for Siobhan Mulroy 26, the news was almost unbearably bad. She lost her father brother and four other rela Tives All coming Home for Christmas. Her father John Moutroy 59, was director of International communications for the associated press. He had gone to Europe to bring Back his son Sean is a toy company consultant and Sean s new wife Ingrid. They had recently settled in Ingrid s native Sweden. John Mulroy also had gathered up his Aster Bridgell her husband Thomas and their son Sean,16, who lived in a London suburb Mulroy had been scheduled to return to new York thursday but he finished his associated press brought his family Home a Day Early. Moutroy who maintained a second Home in Ireland had spent 25 yen working for pan american where he was director of Oom Muni cation until joining associated pits in 1984, Mark a. Rein 44, treasurer and director of the Salo Mon Bros investment banking firm had been wait listed on a British airways night from London where he hoped to use his frequent flier Miles his wife Denice. Raid fro her upper East Side apartment he took flight 103 in Stead. Friday would have been their Isth wedding anniversary Denice rein said. Sabotage from Page 1. Was left up to the commands inc offi Cial said. Neucom spokesman la cmdr Charles Franklin said late thursday that subordinate commands had been Noti fied. However he did not know if serv were then told of the threat. At a briefing thursday. Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said Euco Chasn t been Able to Tell me whether any of the units actually posted a notice to troops with regard to this particular. at the crash scene the Black Box flight data and voice recorders aboard the Boeing 747 were discovered by investigators. Addressing questions raised about the possibility of terrorist sabotage. Chief Constable John Boyd said the investigators have an open they Are not speculating cautioned prime minister Margaret Thatcher after visiting the crash site Here. Speculation is nol evidence Britain s Secretary of state for Scot land Malcolm Rifkind. tors have not established he cause of the Accident adding it is Clear the cause of the Accident happened in the air because we have found pieces of the fuselage scattered Over such a wide the . Ambassador to Britain Charles h. Price ii told reporters on the scene that the questions about terrorism constituted a logical piece of speculation because the aircraft explode without warning at 31,000 feet and its wreckage was strewn about a circular area with a radius of at least 10 Miles. A senior British official close to the investigation said thursday night we Don t know the cause but naturally Are very he added thai one has to look at the nature of semtex and the possibility of its evading detection Light odourless and malleable semtex is a powerful plastic explosive manufactured in Czechoslovakia thar is almost impossible to detect according. To experts. Scotland Yard announced wednesday that British police had uncovered a substantial amount of 5cm Lex explosives in a major Irish Republican army bomb factory in South London. Accident investigators who surveyed the wreckage however did not find any of inc kind of damage 10 pieces of the fuselage that would indicate an explosion occurred inside the Jet usually explosion damage similar to the kind of damage caused to a tin can when a firecracker is set off inside it has been readily apparent in previous bomb accidents. However the sources cautioned that the wreckage is spread Over a 50-Square-Milc area and the investigative team has just completed its first full Day of documenting the pieces. There Are Only two possible causes for such a catastrophic midair disintegration structural failure and a bomb said Freddie Ectman technical Secretary of the British airline pilots association adding that the possibility of structural failure is almost too Remote to be consid ered David Kyd spokesman for the inter National air transport association in Geneva agreed saying sabotage is the most Likely explanation the flight. Pan am 103, originated in Frankfurt with a smaller 727 aircraft. The continuing 747, Clipper maid of the seas took off from London s Heathrow Airport for new York with what pan am officials said was a confirmed Tola of259 passengers and Crew including Sev eral dozen . Soldiers travelling Frame for Christmas. The plane had climbed out of Heath Row Airport without known problems on its assigned flight path headed North West toward the Atlantic. Officials said it dropped off radar screens at 7 15 . Local time and hew apart seconds later Over this Little scottish town of 2,500, in Bonn Han Neusel a senior official responsible for air traffic Security told West German television that no Luggage is put aboard flights at Frankfurt Airport for passengers who fail to Board the1 plane. A v ,"._. . Intelligence experts judged the caller to the Helsinki embassy to be a Crank,1 one official said. Nevertheless the state department took the warning seriously enough to in form pan am the West German govern. Mint and the Federal aviation which issued a formal Security bulletin alerting airlines to the threat. Pan am spokesman Pamela Hanlon said the airline did take extra Security precautions but she refused to provide details./. Officials from the . Federal aviation administration and National transportation safety Board flew to Scotland to help in the investigation which was being run by the British Acci Dent investigation Bureau. The British investigation team also is being aided by representatives of pan am the Boeing co. And Pratt & Whitney which manufactured the Jet s engines. Additional us. Team members were dispatched to Scotland an thursday. The Fri is also on the scene. The largest piece of the Jet found on the ground is the cockpit which rest just outside Lockerbie slightly to the South of a Large piece from the raids be lion of the fuselage. Portions of the Jet s four engines also have been sighted. Thirteen adults and four children Are unaccounted for among the residents of Lockerbie 24 hours after the crash Boyd said although this docs not represent a final death toll. The number of those killed in cars travelling along the main a74 Highway when the Wing came crash ing Down alongside it also remains unknown he said. A police spokesman estimated it Wilt be several Days before an accurate count can be Given of the Fate of All those aboard the plane and All those Unac counted for in this stricken town. Police said that Fay thursday night 61 of the bodies strewn about the area had been brought into a makeshift morgue inthe Lockerbie town Hall. A scottish source who viewed the bodies said they included those of several youths in . Military uniforms. Reporters saw two stacks of bodies lying under tarpaulins earlier in the Day on a Hillside behind Lockerbie. Another body was seen Hung Over a Fence also covered with a Tarp while a police offi cer directed a reporter to yet another thai remained snared in a Bush y Thatcher said she ordered Rescue teams to treat bodies with the utmost dignity in their was made difficult a scottish source said by the discovery of unattached limbs. -. .-., i want to assure our american friends of something Thatcher Laid. The bodies Are being dealt in the with Ibe greatest possible dignity care and Scensi levity. Everyone knows that this is the most important thing.". The prime minister noting that most of the passengers were american announced she sent a message of concern and condolences this morning to presi Dent Reagan. Other world Leaden including soviet president Mikhail Gorba Chev also sent telegrams of condolence to the White House. Fate from Faga 1 around the Booth looking for news. They wanted to give us Nara of peo ple on the plane. We did t have any names. I could just give them pan am s numbers Bonnell said. Some of the Sam were bringing Home infants to Sec their grand parents for inc first time White Othen were planning to Surprise their families with a visit Over the holidays Bonne said. I d seen them Here yesterday. They were All just excited that they were going Home for Christmas she said. I Juit Don t believe this is for those making their Way Home for the holidays speculation hat the plane May have been torn apart in midair by a bomb provided More worries fac. 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 v it got me freaked out but my parents said Don t worry about in the safest Lime to Fly is right after a plane crash. Lightning never strikes twice " a Bissard said that if he had a Choice he would prefer to slay in the United state. I m sure it s More dangerous Here in Germany. I d rather be Back in the states he said. Y a -. The possibility of terrorism re minded other service member that such dangers Are a part of life in eur the Soldier and his family this is a daily thing said Sec Sherry Burgess of Frankfurt. "., a i you can be ill in the Christmas mood and this brings it Home thai you Are in a foreign country and there Are terrorists Here she said. Combat is something you learn to accept but this kind of situation i Rapat a or Antn Cowk to Cal in in 0�imt1tn,
