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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Good friend of mine was the Captain on PanAm 103 that day... but luckily for him he was flying the B-727 from Frankfurt to London, where the pax and baggage were then loaded onto a B-747 for the flight to JFK.
He was a heavy smoker so had the flight engineer bring the cabin pressure down low to keep more air-flow coming through the cockpit so he could smoke. To this day he feels that the bomb should have gone off in his airplane but that this action saved his life and the lives of everyone on the airplane.
They landed and headed to the hotel. About 2 am his phone rang and it was the European President of PanAm. "Can you fly immediately?" He ran to the airport and got into the same -727 and took everyone possible up to the crash site...
I flew -103 several times coming and going. Was based in Berlin at that time and it was a good quick way to get back to CONUS. A part of me died when PanAm went down...
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