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	Pan Am Flight 73 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked on September 5, 1986, by four armed men of the Abu Nidal organization.
		The incident began as passengers boarded the aircraft for the flight which had originated in Mumbai, India, and was scheduled to fly to Frankfurt, Germany and then to New York.
		Flight attendants were able to alert the cockpit crew using intercom, allowing the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer to escape through a hatch in the cockpit, effectively grounding the aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_73 (1249 words)

	Pan American World Airways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pan Am's holding company, the Aviation Corporation of the Americas, was one of the hottest stocks on the New York Curb Exchange in 1929, and flurries of speculation surrounded each of its new route awards.
		Another Pan Am 747, the Clipper Victor, was involved in the Tenerife disaster on March 27, 1977, the worst disaster in aviation history (excepting the events of 9/11).
		Pan Am also figured prominently in Scarface (set in the city of Miami, one of Pan Am's major hubs), where the airline's logo and slogan were adopted by criminal overlord Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan_Am (4319 words)

	Pan Am Flight 73: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pan Am (Pan Am: pan american world airways, commonly known as pan am, was the united states principal...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) Flight 73 was a flight that was hijacked on September 5, 1986 by four armed men of the Abu Nidal (Abu Nidal: abu nidal (may 1937 - august 16, 2002), born sabri khalil al-banna,...
		Over the next approximately 16 hours, Safarini, as the leader of the hijackers on board the aircraft, demanded the return of a flight crew to fly the aircraft to Larnaca (Larnaca: larnaca, or larnaka, is a city on the southeast coast of cyprus....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/pan_am_flight_73 (1208 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Day of Horror in 1986 Is Relived (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Flight attendant Sunshine Vesuwala became a human shield during the 16-hour siege, as the hijackers' leader pulled her around the plane by the neck, executed American passengers and terrorized all 379 people on board.
		The Pan Am flight began in Bombay and was headed for New York but was hijacked at the airport during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan.
		One midwestern scientist whose father was killed on the flight told the judge he respectfully disagreed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A22394-2004May12?language=printer (696 words)

	Press Release - Department of Justice
		"The opportunity for the many victims who were on Pan Am Flight 73 to share with the court the horror and nightmare of that day in 1986 and then bear witness to the defendant receiving his life sentence is a testament to the world that the United States never forgets.
		The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 was one of the most brutal international terrorist attacks to occur in the 1980s.
		Some of the flight attendants were able to alert the cockpit crew about the hijacking by intercom, allowing the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer to escape through a hatch in the cockpit before the hijackers reached the cockpit, thereby effectively grounding the aircraft.
	www.fbi.gov /dojpressrel/pressrel04/051304hijacker.htm (1542 words)

	Leesfield Leighton & Partners, P.A. - Miami FL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jury found that but for Pan Am's inadequate terrorist prevention techniques and deliberate indifference shown to the passengers and overt acts of willfulness, the bombing would not have occurred.
		In 1983 a Pan Am flight from Rome to NY was the target of a bomb planted in an unaccompanied suitcase.
		In a classic move that backfired, after the explosion Pan Am attempted to backdate the FAA Helsinki warning to give investigators the impression that the warning was timely disseminated.
	www.leesfield.com /speeches/speech4.htm (2572 words)

	CNN.com - Suspect in deadly '86 hijacking arraigned in U.S. - October 2, 2001
		Suspect in deadly '86 hijacking arraigned in U.S. A suspect in the deadly 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jetliner in Pakistan pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of murdering two U.S. citizens aboard the hijacked plane.
		The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 is described by U.S. officials as one of the most brutal international terrorist attacks in the 1980s.
		The incident began as passengers were boarding the aircraft in Karachi for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, en route to New York.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/LAW/10/02/panam.hijacking (495 words)

	Memorial inspires hijack victims' kin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Almost 19 years after the Pan American Airline hijack of 1986 that left 21 people dead, the families of the victims are uniting to create the Families from Pan Am Flight 73-FPAF-73 group.
		According to Aneesh Bhanot, brother of victim Neerja Bhanot, the objective of the group is to help erect a memorial for the victims as well as to garner compensation for all victims and survivors from those who supported and executed the attack.
		There were about 400 people on board the flight, so there are almost 400 families that we are trying to make contact with, to join the group.
	web.mid-day.com /news/city/2005/march/105518.htm (526 words)

	CNN.com - Remorseful Pan Am hijacker sentenced to 160 years - May 14, 2004
		Amid sobs and applause from victims and relatives of those killed in the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan, Zaid Hassan Abd Latif Safarini -- leader of an Abu Nidal terrorist band that stormed the plane and murdered 21 passengers -- received the maximum sentence.
		U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan made no effort to conceal his empathy for the dozens of surviving Pan Am passengers and family members of victims who had traveled from around the world to confront the brutal killer who has haunted them for 18 years.
		Sunshine Vesuwala, a rookie flight attendant who was used as a human shield during the bloody hijacking was visibly upset facing Safarini.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/05/14/panam.hijacker (1142 words)

	Townhall.com :: Reasons to Fight Terrorism
		In 1982, a Palestinian terrorist planted a bomb on a Pan Am flight to Honolulu in 1982; A 15-year-old Japanese boy was killed in the blast and 15 people were injured.
		In 1985, TWA flight 847, Boeing 727 hijacking, forcing the pilots to fly to Beirut, Lebanon, killing a U.S. Navy diver and holding 39 Americans hostage was by: 12.
		In 1986, detonation of a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens Airport, killing four U.S. citizens, was by: 17(a) In 1986, 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan, the attack, in which twenty-two people -- including two Americans -- were killed was by five: 18.
	www.townhall.com /blogs/soapbox/wesley/story/2005/11/18/176199/comment/2474.html (1989 words)

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		The Brigadier was the commander SSG during the operations against hijackers of Air India flight in Lahore as well as the Pan Am flight in Karachi.
		The flight was enroute from Bombay, India to New York and had stopped at Karachi to refuel and pickup more passengers.
		A Pakistan International Airlines flight from the coastal city of Gwadar to Karachi was hijacked by three young men from the province of Balochistan as a protest against the nuclear testing in the province.
	www.pakdef.info /pakmilitary/army/regiments/ssg.html (6147 words)

	CNN.com - Suspect in 1986 hijacking brought to U.S. for trial - October 1, 2001
		The hijacking of Pan Am flight 73 is considered one of the most brutal international terrorist attacks in the 1980s.
		It began as passengers were boarding the aircraft in Karachi for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, en route to New York.
		The hijackers took control of the airplane, and for the next 16 hours they held 379 passengers at gunpoint, including 89 Americans and other members of the flight crew, demanding the return of the pilots.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/US/10/01/inv.panam.hijacking.suspect (579 words)

	DNA - Mumbai - 1986 hijack victims sue Libya for $10bn - Daily News & Analysis
		MUMBAI: One hundred and seventy-six passengers, crew and family members who were victims of the September 5, 1986, hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan, have filed a suit against Libya and the terrorists convicted for the attack.
		Among the victims was Mumbai girl Neerja Bhanot, a flight purser, who fought the hijackers and was killed while shielding three children.
		Five armed men seized Pan Am Flight 73 when it was on the ground at Karachi airport.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1024365 (767 words)

	1986 Hijack Leader Pleads Guilty In US Court
		The leader of a 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jet in Pakistan that killed at least 20 people pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spares him the death penalty but calls for life imprisonment.
		He admitted he led the hijackers who took over Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986 while it was loading for a flight to Frankfurt en route to New York.
		Threatening to kill the passengers and crew one by one until the demands were met, Safarini shot a 29-year-old California man in the head and threw his body from the aircraft to the tarmac, Maisel said.
	news.airwise.com /stories/2003/12/1071605091.html (503 words)

	No justice, no purse - Sepia Mutiny
		Another flight attendant who caught the code conveyed it ahead… the three-member cockpit crew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer abandoned the aircraft… [Link]
		She hid the passports of the passengers on the flight so that the hijackers could not differentiate between American and Non-American citizens.
		She was also awarded the Tagme-e-Insaniyat (Pakistan), the flight Safety Foundation Award and the Medal of Heroism of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (U.S.A.).
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/003278.html (1735 words)

	The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All of Life
		Gadhafi's regime has been accused of kidnapping and torturing enemies to his rule, openly endorsing terrorist groups such as the Irish Republican Army, and is alleged to have bombed in 1988 the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland.
		Abu Nidal, representing Libya, hijacks Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan in 1987 with several Americans murdered during the ordeal.
		Two Libyan agents in 1988 were alleged to have bombed Pan Am Flight 103 — 270 killed, 200 being Americans.
	www.chalcedon.edu /articles/0301/030121-1swank.php (760 words)

	US Department of State Daily Press Briefing #169
		Aphrodite Tsairis, Chairwoman, Victims of Pan Am 103; and Bert Ammerman, the President of Victims of Pan Am 103.
		Q What about the -- since we're talking about Pan Am -- the attempted hijack of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan, in which 21 people were killed, including two Americans, and 120 were injured.
		BOUCHER: What I am saying here with regard to Iran is what we've said publicly before with regard to Iran, and that's that we doubt the sincerity of their commitments; that they have made statements, and that we have urged all potential suppliers not to contribute to Iran's nuclear activities at this point.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/daily_briefings/1991/9111/169.html (5627 words)

	Lockerbie part of Libya campaign - - MSNBC.com
		The former residence of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, pictured in December 1999, is seen still gutted after its bombing by U.S. jet fighters in 1986 after President Ronald Reagan accused Tripoli of being responsible for a bomb blast in a West Berlin discotheque in which two American GI's were killed.
		NEW YORK, Feb. 1 - U.S. officials believe the Pan Am 103 bombing was part of a larger operation by Libya to retaliate for the Reagan Administration attack on Moammar Gadhafi’s headquarters more than three years earlier.
		The December 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103...
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3340728 (794 words)

	Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World's Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service
		Projects that are already under way, like the modernization of flight service stations and the elimination of unnecessary or redundant navigation aids, are perfect examples of cutting costs and modernizing the ATC system at the same time.
		Claiming that the pilots of Southwest Flight 1248 were negligent in the operation of their aircraft in last December's fatal accident at Chicago's Midway Airport, a passenger injured during the fatal landing has sued the airline.
		"Southwest Airlines acted in conscious disregard for the safety of its passengers on Flight 1248, as well as for the victims on the ground and the general public," said Kreindler's Daniel O. Rose, a pilot who successfully litigated a similar case against Southwest stemming from a runway overrun in Burbank, CA, in March 2000.
	www.aero-news.net /index.cfm?contentBlockId=065fd526-7074-4371-b76d-a6c323ef4b47 (13090 words)

	BTS \| Chapter 7: National Security
		On July 25, 1996, after the loss of TWA Flight 800, President Clinton established the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, chaired by Vice President Gore, and directed that preflight security inspections be conducted on all overseas international flights.
		The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, the French airline Union de Transport Aeriens (UTA) Flight 772 in 1989, and the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 in 1999 are reminders that aviation security is an international concern (box73).
		November 23, 1985: An EgyptAir flight was hijacked enroute from Athens to Cairo and diverted to Malta.
	www.bts.gov /publications/the_changing_face_of_transportation/chapter_07.html (8460 words)

	CNN.com - Survivors condemn hijacker in Pan Am massacre - May 12, 2004
		The deadly standoff on the airport tarmac in Karachi, Pakistan, captured world attention on September 5, 1986, when Safarini and three subordinate commandos took over the Pan Am plane with 379 passengers during a stop on a Bombay to New York flight.
		The survivors and family members of murdered passengers traveled from five countries and 11 states to witness and participate in the process that many have told federal prosecutors may finally bring closure to their long nightmare.
		Kumar's body was dumped from the plane onto the tarmac as Safarini's demand for a flight to Cyprus to free Palestinian prisoners was rejected.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/05/12/hijacker.sentencing (911 words)

	Abu Nidal Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was responsible for the Rome and Vienna airport murders in December 1985, the slaughter of worshippers in Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking in Karachi in September 1986, and many other attacks.
		His body was found in his apartment with a pistol next to it, and he was known to have been suffering from a serious disease.
		The fact that it was reported that he was shot several times in an apparent "suicide" is a none too subtle message to those in the terrorist community what reward awaits those who would oppose Saddam Hussein.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/735579/posts (1744 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Zaid Hassan Abd Latif Safarini, the 42-year-old Jordanian involved in the killing of 21 innocent persons, including Chandigarh-born Neerja Bhanot, during an attempt to hijack a Pan Am aircraft at Karachi airport on September 5, 1986, has been sentenced to 160 years in solitary confinement by a US court.
		Safarini and four others has stormed the Pan Am flight 73 at Karachi airport and tried to hijack it.
		Exemplary courage shown by Ms Neerja Bhanot, a Senior Flight Purser with Pan Am, ensured that the attempt did not succeed.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040515/main8.htm (504 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Saddam ‘ordered Nidal killing’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The bombing, which killed 259 people on Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 and 11 people on the ground, earned Nidal’s group, the Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) £12 million, according to the aide, who worked for Nidal until several years ago.
		The former FRC aid told the Sunday Times that the original revenge attack on the US was the botched hijacking of Pan Am flight 73 in Karachi on 5 September 1986, in which 22 passengers died.
		The aide added that Flight 103 was meant to have been blown up over the Atlantic, but that the delayed departure from Heathrow meant the timed device exploded over Scotland.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=945872002 (747 words)

	Crowell & Moring LLP \| UTA Flight 772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The court filing disclosed for the first time detailed forensic evidence and testimony proving that high-ranking members of the Libyan government and intelligence services were directly responsible for planning and carrying out the placement of a suitcase bomb on the plane.
		After almost three years of court proceedings, the families of the seven Americans who were among the 170 persons killed on the UTA flight have asked the federal court to immediately rule, through “summary judgment” procedures, that Libya and its agents are responsible for the bombing.
		To this day, they have refused to take responsibility for UTA Flight 772, even though there is no question that they planned, financed, and carried out this horrendous attack.
	www.crowell.com /UTAFlight772 (846 words)

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