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    Pan Am Flight 103

    The Lockerbie bombing

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    Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 flying from London Heathrow to New York, was destroyed by a bomb in its forward cargo hold over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988. All 259 people on board and 11 residents of Lockerbie were killed, and a Libyan intelligence officer was later convicted of their murder.

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    Olympic Airways Flight 411

    An engine failure over Athens

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    An engine failed as Olympic Airways Flight 411, a fully loaded Boeing 747 bound for New York, lifted off from Athens on 9 August 1978, and the jet barely climbed as it crossed the city at rooftop height. The crew nursed it out over the sea, dumped fuel and landed back at Athens about an hour later, and all 418 people on board survived.

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