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56 J. Air L. & Com. 413 (1990-1991)
Aviation Security and Pan Am Flight 103: What Have We Learned

handle is hein.journals/jalc56 and id is 423 raw text is: AVIATION SECURITY AND PAN AM FLIGHT 103: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?* NANCY JEAN STRANTZ** I. INTRODUCTION HAT CHANGE comes more readily from desperation than inspiration has never been more evident than in the case of the Pan American World Airways Flight 103 (Pan Am Flight 103), which blew up over Lockerbie, Scot- land on December 21, 1988. The lives of two hundred forty-three passengers and sixteen crew members were lost. This article is about the ill-fated Pan Am Flight 103 and of the changes that have followed it. These changes are, by no means, complete. Pan Am Flight 103 has been the catalyst for several bills (House bills for the proposed Air- port Technology and Research Act of 1989 and the pro- posed Aviation Security Act of 1989 and companion House and Senate bills for the proposed Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990') and continues to indirectly af- * The legislation and information discussed in this article reflects sources as of Oct. 19, 1990. ** The author is a recent graduate of South Texas College of Law (Spring 1990) and holds a LLB. degree from the University of Alberta (1981). She has practiced law in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, both as a private practitioner and as in- house counsel with a major Canadian oil and gas company. She has also co-au- thored a reference guide on Canadian hardrock mining legislation. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance and support of the following: Mr. Myron P. Papadakis, Mr. Charles Weigel, III, and Ms. Ursula Weigold (South Texas College of Law) and Mr. Joe Feathers (Senate Document Room). I Airport Security Technology and Research Act, H.R. 2365, 101st Cong., 1st Sess. 135 CONG. REC. H5881 (daily ed. Sept. 25, 1989) [hereinafter Airport Tech- nology and Research Act]; Aviation Security Act, H.R. 1659, 101st Cong., 1st 413