Prince Charles Visits Pan Am Crash Site
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LOCKERBIE, Scotland — Prince Charles, visibly shocked by lingering signs of damage, received a warm welcome Tuesday in this Scottish border town devastated by the Pan Am air disaster in which 270 people died.
His visit followed widespread criticism of the Royal Family for not attending a memorial service for victims of the crash of the New York-bound Boeing 747, which was destroyed by a bomb on Dec. 21 in Britain’s worst air crash. All 259 aboard the plane and 11 local people died as fire and wreckage rained on Lockerbie.
In the town square on Tuesday 2,000 people, including 800 schoolchildren, waited in the freezing wind to catch a glimpse of the 40-year-old prince.
He laid a wreath at a flower-filled shrine outside the red sandstone town hall.
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