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Pan Am Flight 103 went down on the 21st of December in 1988. A bomb destroyed the Boeing 747 above the city of Lockerbie in Scotland. The 243 passengers, 16 crew members and 11 inhabitants of Lockerbie died this day.
The Lockerbie bombing, with 180 American citizen victims, was the deadliest attack against the US until the 9/11 hijackings. It is generally regarded as a retaliatory strike for the downing of an Iranian Air Airbus A300 earlier in the year. Iran Air Flight 655 went down after being hit by a guided missile fired by the USS Vincennes, killing 290 people, with 66 of them being children. A link can be found below.
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How many people died in the Lockerbie disaster?
There were 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard the Boeing 747, and 11 people on the ground died when the plane fell on Lockerbie. There were 290 fatalities that day. A link can be found below.
What is disaster relief?
Disaster relief is a funding program of the United States federal government. When a natural disaster occurs, disaster relief funds are distributed throughout the area for humanitarian efforts.
What was Kennedy's most obvious foreign policy disaster?
I think the Bay of Pigs incident in which the US sponsored a futile rebellion in Cuba was the biggest disaster.
What services does the disaster recovery services provide?
Disaster recovery services provide help and backup facilities for companies and their databases. If a mainframe of server crashes then disaster recovery will help the data and the entire computer system be restored as near as possible to the state it should be in.
What is the role of non government organisation in disaster management in India?
The role of the NGO's during a disaster is to have quick response and to try and save as many lives as it can with the given funds. NGO's have a faster response to situations because it does not need to clear paperwork.
