[Dr. Sivana]

Interesting, I know one of those pilots. I knew he didn’t get most of his pension, and although he invested wisely, he has twin severely autistic sons now in middle age, and the pension would be put to good use.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Pan American was a great international airline. Unfortunately, they never had a grasp of the hub and spoke US market. I remember one of the first 707s was on the Tokyo-San Francisco run.
Arriving in California, we transferred to United, in a DC-6...

[Yaelle]

Wow, I didn’t realize that. Very sad. Where would the money to make these pilots whole come from? I wonder if these pilots were a member of a Licensed Protected Victim Group if they would be made whole. Even though they do look like Obama’s own Grandpa.

I had a friend at the time whose college friend died in that crash. She died herself a few years later getting hit by a truck in Manhattan.

[Yo-Yo]

And we had such high hopes for Pan Am.

[SamAdams76]

I remember when the big MetLife tower straddling Park Avenue near Grand Central had PanAm on top of it.

[stocksthatgoup]

Time for a strike. /s

[SkyPilot]

Thanks for posting, and here is praying for the pilots.

I went to Syracuse, and this was a tragedy not only for the families and for Pan Am, but for the university.

I flew on Pan Am many times during the "glory days."

Today, the air travel experience is a torture fest by comparison.

[P.O.E.]

Pan Am - Introduction to Jet Service A 3- minute Retro glimpse.

[workerbee]

To date, “Justice” has done just about everything in its power to keep these pilots from getting any kind of compensation, none of which would be taxpayer money, according to plaintiff attorney Joanne Young.

I'm sorry, I'm not following. Does this refer to the agreement with Libya that shields them from other claims since they paid the Lockerbie families? If the argument is that the fed govt should make up for Pan-Am going under, wouldn't that by default mean "taxpayer money"?