The World - News from April 20, 1989

A British newspaper reported that large numbers of U.S. diplomats apparently heeded an official warning and canceled reservations on Pan American World Airways flights in the weeks before the bombing of Flight 103 last December. Citing a House of Representatives panel probing the bombing, the Independent said that internal Pan Am documents showed that holiday traffic for U.S. embassies had been heavily re-booked before the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said, “There is no evidence whatsoever of any systematic pattern of canceled reservations for this flight by anyone or any group.”