PAN AM JET CRASHES IN SCOTLAND, KILLING AT LEAST 273

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The document describes a plane crash involving a Pan Am flight from London to New York. The crash occurred in a Scottish village and resulted in the death of all passengers on board, as well as 15 villagers on the ground. The cause of the crash is unknown, but witnesses reported a possible explosion on the plane before it hit the ground. The CIA's Stargate program does not provide any additional information about the crash.

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 Dead Include 15 Villagers; On-Board Blast Suspected
 from London to New York crashed
 into a Scottish village last night.
 apparently killing all M persons
 aboard.
 The Boeing 747 slammed into a
 gasolene station and several homes
 a Pan Am vice president, Jeff Ktien-
 dler, told reporters in New York
 last night. The plane had left Lou.
 dads Heathrow Airport at 6.25
 pm. local time (125 pm ISTJ,
 and the last contact from the crew
 was at 7:15 p.m, when the plane
 was cruising at 31.000 feet, Krim
 t lersaid. He added that itwas'pre-
 cmely an awed" when A disap-
 gars said in a telephone interview.
 Krieger gave the time the plane
 bit the gmmd as 722.. Britain's
 Civil Aviation Authority said Scot-
 tish air controllers had talked to the
 crew minutes before the crash and
 received no indication of any prob-
 lem,
 British aviation officials denied
 reports that the 747 may have bit
 soother plane. One British news
 service report said the jet may have
 broken into two before hitting the
 ground.Bian Reed, a spokesman
 for Britain's Scottish Office in Ed-
 iaburgh, said his office had received
 reports of wreckage landing in
 Langholm,10 miles east of Locker-
 bee.
 Al we know is that all those in
 the aircraft are dead," said David
 Brooks, air vice marshal for the
 Royal Air Fora in Scotland.
 Pan Am's Kriendler said the air
 line would not release a passenger
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 afaebalthat raceup to 300feet.
 into the sky.
 A police o mm in the nearby
 town of Dwmfiries reported that at
 leap 15 villagers had been killed.
 Local hospitals said 12 seriously
 burned villagers had been rushed is
 fm treatment.
 There was an mr~ mdicr
 tion of what cased the accident,
 which took place m dear weather
 less than an hones flight time from
 Landon.
 'There were no mayday signk,'
 As rescue terns reached the
 cask scene, about 275 aces north-
 west of London, there were
 madica-
 bm of an explosion aboard the
 plane. The jet's cabin door was
 found about 10 miles from the test
 of the cockpit, while an engine was
 fond on a highway outside the vil-
 lage. At least one witness said the
 plane may have been on fire before
 it hit the ground.
 The place, Pan Am Flight 103,
 "disappeared from radar contact at
 7:15 p.m.," British Department of
 Transport spokesman Mom Vertt?
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 CIA bias that seeks to make'Libya's Moammar
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 encourages gadflies to come forward with what the
 Reagan has.been obsessed with Gadhafi for eight
 years and might like to have the final say. The last
 directed by Iran bombed Flight 103. Reagan has
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 which one U.S. serviceman was killed., President
 Reagan used the incident to justify a subsequent
 bombing raid on Libyan sites, including Gadhafi's
 Tripoli home.
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 European intelligence officers noted that the involvement. But to believe them is ludicrous.
 intelligence services so wary of sharing
 Europe and the Middle ;East nave pooh-pooped the.` -
 claims of a shadowy pro-Iranian group that has
 been trying to assert responsibility for the
 bombing.
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 Islamic Revolution" and claims it was motivated by
 the downing of an Iranian airliner last July'by.a U .S
 warship. The group, in a'call to London news
 warned "there will be another present in.
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