European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Is takes a break Liiv min ill uii1 . Lui Lilay. The ships jul sri i i ill u Bini ii Tig Ahe slate t us . Ii nil strip Vishi to vol. 47. No. 251 Tut ionized unofficial Public sunday monday december 25-26.1388 t2&t div merry Christmas d 8693 a crash tape bolsters bomb theory Lockerbie Scotland a the cockpit record ing of pan am flight i d3 s final Minics ended with a Brief mysterious faint noise and gave no sign the pills knew Isdr Boeing 747 was doomed inc Saiga lors said captured by the Black bos which records All cockpit activity were Normal right up to the faint noise at the end which needs a Bil More Analy Sis said Paul Meskie a spokesman for inc depart ment of transport whose air Accident investigation Branch is analysing the tapes. Mick Charles the Branch official heading a team of 40 . And British investigators at the crash site said we have no evidence whatsoever yet of Sab David Clarmount a respected aviation editor at flight International an Industry Magazine said the recorder bolstered inc bomb theory. The Black boxes have told us that it was an instantaneous catastrophe. Thai is Why the bomb theory s very much the favorite he Lold Independent television news. The bomb theory explains everything which happened. If this Case was just simple Metal fatigue i spared by mix up Curtis Rahil who had been booked to Fly out of London wednesday on pan am flight 103, kisses his Mother Dorothy in their Wilbraham Mas Home after his arrival thursday. Through a ticketing error he was put on another Fli Uhl instead of the one that crashed killing All aboard. Failure it would have had to have been cataclysmic really extraordinarily unlikely. Gut Ifil did happen we really have to know and know fast he said. The plane flying from London to new York broke up at 31,000 feet wednesday night killing All 259 peo ple aboard and bombarding the scottish Countryside with flaming wreckage Over a 0-Mileradiuj. Suspicions of sabotage were prompted by the inexplicable sudden break up of the plane an iranian claim of responsibility and disclosures that inc . Government had been warned of a plot to bomb a pan sea tape on Back Page of conf cover Elf a chalks up costs if nov Efcy r the stars and stripes j Gusty winds 9tw Walls of rain a Omufil As 7-year-old Courtney Hall nov up with a 104-Dcrfcc temperature. It seemed that spreading Good Checo by caroling in the cold and wind the Norwil before a knocked a Tittle of the Christmas spirit of Impf her. & later in inc Day. Who mrs aft her fever and upset stomach her father govern meat civilian Patrick Hal called her into the kit Dick ache rounded the Corner her eyes caught sight of Thurald new 10-Specd Bike. Courtney was told that Shn fled won first it acc in the stars and stripes Colorina Kcf Chesl in the 3 to 7-year old group and that inc a pfc a Swiss prize. A hesitant smite pm cd fro her face one of Cau Tion and disbelief. $ \ contest officials spid coun Cawon first place for originality and a que use of sch materials us shredded Coco nuff glitter and nov docs. Courtney s Mother. Pat Poluk Hall said she Colbe youngster use whatever was Utica blk for her it s Prosaw the first time i be Civ been in first place Courtsey said forgetting that Shiv on top Hon ors in the fcb and me poster contest of cantly sponsored by be Gic Belstadt army comm Rwy service she also won honorable mention in the Latars and stripes colouring con lest the past iwo years. V also Vinning a bicycle was Cuneyt Okuzo of who submitted he winning entry ten the s to,f2-Ycar-pld category. \ a turkish Torrny officer s son the 9-Ycar-olo a lived his Bax bicycle an hour before his family do see Victory on Back Page memories of 88 Aren t stuff writer the images that remain the most vivid from arc not All pleasant ones. ,.a crippled italian Jet hurtles toward a crowd of spec tutors Al a weekend air show at Ramstein a. Ecsi Germany aug. 28. An explosion and resulting fireball. Leave 70 dead and hundreds injured Al least eight. Survivors remain Hospital a cd with severe bums. Three months Lateran dec. 8, an air Force a-10 attack plane on its Way to a Low level training exercise crashes into an apartment building in re Mscheid West Germany. Is people Are killed including the 34 year old american Pilot. Charred wreckage litters the streets evoking memories for those left homeless by the Allied bombs that fell during world War 11,-, the two crashes although unrelated and involving the air forces of different nations have led to incr Cairn. Calls from a Broad Cross Section of the West Gentian political spectrum for Siriller limits if not ban on nato Low level flying and other military training. A look Back at in Many ways that grass Sis Campaign for a less visible and ices presence in West Germany Hajje Eunhe Central Iheme of 1988 through out thejp�t6t Europe As Well. The . Military is Init of a very trying time on the continent. There were More than 60 serious accidents involving aircraft from nato countries. Also eight . F 16s crashed in Europe during the fiscal year that ended sell. 30, while another f-16 crash in spam dec 5 claimed the life of maj Gen. . Harp commander of he 16th air Force. All has not been Quick on the ground either. Euro Pean critics this year have stepped up criticism against. I Crinan and nato ground based exercises. In positive Side of 1988 s headlines arms negotiators to the United states and soviet Union took what both calling for the scrapping of hundreds of ingerm Kiaie Range nuclear missiles in Europe. Even As warheads and Ali site launchers arc being see memories on Back Page
