The World : Pan Am Re-Bookings Told

U.S. diplomats apparently heeded an official warning and canceled seats on Pan Am flights in the weeks before the bombing of Flight 103 last Dec. 21, according to airline documents quoted in a congressional memorandum. The House Government Operations transportation subcommittee staff memo, obtained by the Associated Press, says Pan Am documents indicate that Christmas holiday traffic for U.S. Embassy personnel had been heavily re-booked before the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. Relatives of those who died in the bombing have been angry that a U.S. warning of a possible bombing of a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt, West Germany to the United States was not made available to the public.