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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2252

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1988 (21 Dec.) Pam Am Lockerbie Crash
1988 Ethiopian aerogramme sent by the writer via courier to his corporate office in Canada for onward mailing as there was no direct airmail service between Ethiopia and South Africa, it joined Flight 103 at Frankfurt and after retrieval with "This material originally dispatched December 19/86. Delay due to recovery from courier shipment in Lockerbie air crash." label applied to reverse, two Canada datestamps for June 1989 after items were held for investigation. Rare. Nierinck 881221b. Photo

Note: On the night of the 23/24 December Pan Am's New York bound Boeing 474 Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet over Lockerbie due to a bomb on board. A terrorist bomb had been placed in a suitcase which originated in Malta and which had connected with the flight at Frankfurt. All 259 passengers, and 11 ground casualties, perished

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Sold for
£700