Signs of bomb in Pan Am jet debris
NZPA-Reuter London Signs of a bomb blast have been found on wreckage, luggage and bodies recovered from the Pan Am crash site in Scotland, media reports say. “The Times” of London yesterday said investigators searching the site of the crash that killed up to 270 people found plastic lining from one of the jumbo jet’s cargo bays with heat damage most likely caused by luggage exploding in the hold. An American television network, N.8.C., quoted a senior United States Administration source as saying a suitcase and
other pieces of debris recovered from the wreckage were “pitted and pockmarked” in ways “consistent with an explosive device.” “The Times” report, which was unsourced, said suitcases were found that had been ripped by metal fragments, and some of the bodies recovered had slivers of metal embedded in them. It said this, and the heatdamaged plastic lining, were the hardest evidence so far that the crash was caused by a bomb.
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