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	Encyclopedia: UTA Flight 772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Union des Transports AÃ©riens Flight 772 was a flight of a French airline which was scheduled to fly from the former Congo-Brazzaville, to N'Djamena in Chad, and then to Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris.
		A similar attack on Pan Am Flight 103 the year before is assumed to be a revenge for the US Bombing of Tripoli in 1986.
		The nose, containing the flight crew and first-class section, landed in a farmers field near a tiny church in Tundergarth, Scotland Pan Am Flight 103, registered N739PA and named Clipper Maid of the Seas, was blown up as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, when...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/UTA-Flight-772 (715 words)

	UTA Flight 772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Union des Transports Aeriennes Flight 772 was a flight on a French airline which flew from Brazzaville, to N'Djamena, and then to Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris.
		On 19 September, 1989, F-BTDF, the Douglas DC-10-30 on the route broke up over the Sahara Desert near the town of Bilma and the town of Ténéré, Niger when a bomb in the forward cargo hold exploded.
		The brother in law of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and five other Libyans were put on trial in absentia for the bombing of Flight 772.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/u/ut/uta_flight_772.html (125 words)

	List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by airline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A wrongful death law suit relating to this flight was processed in Miami Florida.
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	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_airliners_grouped_by_airline (242 words)

	UTA flight 772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		September 19, 1989 - a DC 10 from the airline UTA (flight 772)
		Gadaffi, with regards the bombing of UTA flight 772.
		Despite the continual pleading by Gadaffi to be allowed back into the political and financial playpen of the world market, he continues to harbor those who were responsible (the Pan Am bombing) in placing the bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
	home.c2i.net /stein.sandvold/uta (147 words)

	France-diplomatie [Diplomatic News] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You know France's position: We ask that the families of the victims of UTA 772 be treated fairly, this being an indispensable condition for lifting the sanctions against Libya.
		That implies, in particular, that compensation in the UTA affair must be granted on the same basis as that which is to be received by the Lockerbie victims.
		Q - In speaking with certain UTA victims' associations, one has the feeling that the question of compensation for the UTA victims might have been settled too quickly and that the Americans played their hand better by putting pressure on Libya, delaying the lifting of sanctions as long as possible to obtain better negotiating conditions.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /actu/article.gb.asp?ART=36498 (3592 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Libya to Pay $170 Million In Bombing of Airliner in '89
		Still, UTA 772 had become known among victim groups here as "the forgotten flight," because the case never received as much attention as the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, nine months earlier.
		Nonetheless, in July 1999, Libya paid the French government $34 million in compensation for the UTA flight, part of which went to families of victims.
		But a spokesman for the UTA families said the difference will not be as great after lawyers' fees and U.S. government taxes are subtracted from the Lockerbie amounts.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A4119-2004Jan9?language=printer (984 words)

	union des transports aeriennes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Union des Transports Aeriennes (UTA) (United Transit Airlines in the English language) was a French international airline.
		The airline was purchased in 1990 by Air France.
		UTA Flight 772, which was flying on a Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris route, was bombed over Niger on 19 September 1989.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Union_des_Transports_Aeriennes.html (143 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UTA 772: The forgotten flight
		The tragedy of UTA Flight 772, blown up over the Sahara desert in 1989, has often been forgotten amid the attention given to the fate of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie the previous year.
		Instead of the $10m per victim which the Americans and British have negotiated for the Pan Am explosion, the court awarded the families of the UTA victims sums ranging from 3,000 to 30,000 euros, depending on their relationship to the dead.
		On 19 September 1989, the UTA plane was bound for Paris from Congo Brazzaville in Central Africa.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3163621.stm (811 words)

	Senators call for Libya oil embargo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a letter to Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the senators said current U.N. sanctions against Libya "are often broken with no repercussions for, and no public pressure brought to bear on, those responsible" for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 and UTA Flight 772 in 1989.
		The Security Council banned flights to and from Libya in 1992 to force the surrender of two Libyans wanted in the Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.
		U.S. officials also claim Libya was involved in the bombing of the UTA flight over Niger that killed 170 people.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/97/05/21/libya.2-0.html (176 words)

	Crowell & Moring LLP :: Victims of September 1989 UTA Flight 772 Bombing Seek Court Ruling That Libya is ...
		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.
		Included are incriminating statements by former members of the Libyan intelligence agencies who have since fled Qhadaffi's regime, scientific proof directly connecting the Libyan government with the placement of a suitcase bomb on the aircraft, and evidence that Libya attempted to hide its role in the UTA bombing as the French investigators built their case.
	sev.prnewswire.com /airlines-aviation/20050919/DCM01619092005-1.html (873 words)

	S/1999/726
		On 10 March 1999, a French court in Paris convicted, in absentia, Abdallah Senoussi, Abdesslam Issa Shibani, Abdesslam Hamouda, Abdallah Elazrag, Ibrahim Naeli and Musbah Arbas for the 1989 bombing of UTA flight 772.
		Moreover, it had announced its complete readiness to cooperate with the French authorities investigating the bombing of UTA flight 772 and had pledged to provide all possible facilities to the French examining magistrate.
		I am aware and recognizant of political and legal developments on a national level related to the bombing of UTA flight 772 and Pan Am flight 103 in the three countries concerned.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/security/s-1999-726.htm (3046 words)

	ipedia.com: Foreign relations of Libya Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Full lifting of UN sanctions is contingent on Libyan compliance with its remaining UNSCR requirements on Pan Am 103, including acceptance of responsibility for the actions of its officials and payment of appropriate compensation.
		Libya did pay compensation in 1999 for the death of British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, a move that preceded the reopening of the British Embassy in Tripoli, and paid damages to the families of the victims in the bombing of UTA Flight UT-772.
		In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted by federal prosecutors in the U.S. and Scotland for their involvement in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
	www.ipedia.com /foreign_relations_of_libya.html (1427 words)

	1993 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rezaq was returned to the United States to stand trial on charges of air piracy for the 1985 hijacking of an Egyptair flight in which 60 people died in Malta.
		It is subject to mandatory international sanctions because of its responsibility for bombing two civil aircraft, Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.
		Resolution 731 endorsed the demands of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France in connection with the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/arms/PGT_report/1993PGT.html (21118 words)

	[27 Aug 1998] SC/6566 : SECURITY COUNCIL WELCOMES JOINT UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES INITIATIVE, NETHERLANDS ...
		By the terms of its resolution (1192 [1998]), adopted unanimously, the Council decided that the Libyan Government should ensure the appearance of the two accused in the Netherlands for trial, and also ensure that any evidence or witnesses in Libya were promptly made available to the court upon request.
		The communique calls upon Libya to produce all material evidence it possesses that might be useful in establishing the truth, facilitate contacts and meetings for the assembly of witnesses and authorize Libyan officials to respond to requests made by the examining magistrate.
		The Pan Am and UTA flights, in which 440 persons had been killed, were savage and pre-meditated acts.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1998/19980827.sc6566.html (6090 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Deal Reached With Libya on Pan Am Bombing
		UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 12 -- Libya has pledged to assume responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to relatives of the 270 victims in exchange for a formal end to an 11-year United Nations embargo, U.N. diplomats said today.
		To have the sanctions lifted permanently, Libya must pay compensation to the families of the victims, take responsibility for the attack, renounce terrorism and agree to cooperate on the settlement terms.
		In a possible hitch in the latest agreement, France has indicated that it wants to delay a council vote to allow lawyers to strike a better deal for the families of the victims of the September 1989 bombing of a French UTA jet.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A52091-2003Aug12?language=printer (677 words)

	List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		UTA Flight 772 - Blown up over the Sahara Desert by Libyan terrorists.
		Indian Airlines Flight 814 - Hijacked on the way to India, and flown to India, Pakistan, the UAE, and Afghanistan before the passengers are released
		TWA Flight 840 - Bombed on the way to Athens, Greece, sucking out 4 on board - the plane landed safely.
	www.portaljuice.com /list_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_airliners__1.html (695 words)

	UTA FLIGHT 772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		UTA Flight 772 was a flight on a French airline which flew from Brazzaville, to Ndjamena, and then to Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris.
		On 19 September, 1989, the DC-10 was over the Sahara Desert when a bomb exploded.
		A total of 170 passengers and crew were killed leaving no survivors.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/UTA+FLIGHT+772 (81 words)

	Searchengine.net : Uta Airline
		UTA airliner blamed on Libyans agreed a long-awaited USD$170 million compensation deal with Tripoli on Thursday, a French offic...
		UTA (flight 772) disappeared from the radar monitors wile flying over the Sahara desert in Niger's.
		UTA was absorbed by Air France in the...
	www.searchengine.net /Uta_Airline.htm (683 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Libya agrees payout for French jet bombing
		Libya signed a long-awaited compensation accord yesterday with the families of 170 people killed in the bombing of a French airliner, ending nearly 15 years of grief and anger and marking a further significant step in Tripoli's rapprochement with the west.
		But the families' negotiators, who clinched the accord on Thursday night with a representative of a private Libyan charitable fund run by the son of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, said the difference was not as great as it appeared since up to 50% of the Lockerbie deal could disappear in legal fees and taxes.
		Nine months after Lockerbie, UTA flight 772 was heading north, en route for Paris from Brazzaville with 170 passengers and crew, when air traffic control in Ndjamena, Chad, requested the pilot to contact Niamey, Niger, half an hour later.
	www.guardian.co.uk /libya/story/0,14139,1119925,00.html (662 words)

	PUGH v THE SOCIALIST PEOPLES LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA - Legal Case Documents
		Defendants' actions and activities, which caused the bombing of UTA Flight 772.
		of Margaret Elizabeth Schutzius, suffered "personal injury" as defined in 28 U.S.C. the widow of Patrick Wayne Huff, who was killed by the terrorist bombing of UTA
		Warner was killed by the terrorist bombing of UTA
	www.legalcasedocs.com /120/253/966.html (349 words)

	afrol News - Libya close to deal with France, UN on sanctions lifting
		The Libyan government earlier was put in connection with the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Scottish Lockerbie and the 1986 bombing of the Berlin discotheque 'La Belle'.
		The 'UTA Flight 772' relatives however understand the compensation as a Libyan confession of guilt.
		The UTA airliner carried 170 persons of 16 nationalities on a trans-Sahara flight to Congo.
	www.afrol.com /articles/10481 (834 words)

	UN Prepares For Handover Of Lockerbie Suspects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But Corell, possibly the most secretive official in the U.N. system, is not expected to make any public statements until after the two have arrived in the Netherlands where they would stand trial before a Scottish court.
		After 90 days the council can vote to lift sanctions entirely following a report from Annan that would state France is satisfied that Libya had cooperated with its investigation of the mid-flight bombing of UTA Flight 772 over Niger in 1989 in which 171 people died.
		He also has to report on whether Libya has renounced all ties to alleged terrorists and made provisions to compensate the families of the crash victims if the two are convicted.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/libya/libya8.htm (603 words)

	LES ACTIVITES DE LA MISSION
		With regard to the UTA incident, the French Government, on 6 November 1997, transmitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations the text of a letter addressed to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs by the Examining Magistrate, Mr.
		A number of steps have been taken towards that end, such as authorizations for flights transporting Libyan pilgrims; other exemptions are envisaged, such as the replacement of aircraft used for medical evacuations.
		Petrovsky requested by the Secretary-General and the letter addressed on 19 January last by Libya to the sanctions Committee, France believes that in addition to these measures other exemptions may be considered in a positive light.
	www.un.int /france/documents_anglais/980320_cs_france_moyenorient.htm (1315 words)

	[08 Apr 1999] SC/6664 : MEASURES AGAINST LIBYA SUSPENDED ON 5 APRIL, SECURITY COUNCIL NOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT
		In UTA flight 772, which exploded over the Niger, 171 people died.
		A total of 270 people were killed when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over the Scottish village of Lockerbie.
		Also by resolution 1192 (1998), the Secretary-General was requested to report, within 90 days of the date of the suspension of the measures, on Libya's compliance with the remaining provisions of Council resolutions 731 (1992) and 748 (1992).
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1999/19990408.sc6664.html (629 words)

	UTA Flight 772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The brother in law of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and five other Libyans were put trial in absentia for the bombing of 772.
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