pan-Am
Adjective
Meaning
pan-Am (comparative more pan-Am, superlative most pan-Am)
Abbreviation of panamerican.
Alternative names
Pan Am
Examples
Barr made the comments at a press conference to announce additional criminal charges in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 190 Americans, an issue he had worked on in his previous stint as attorney general in the early 1990s.
Alexander (1995): pp. 97–98 He resigned from Pan-Am on May 15, 1948, and decided to pursue his dream of writing, particularly for the new medium of television.
Barr’s comments came on the 32nd anniversary of the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
Instead, you can meet someone like Don Cooper, 88, of Port Ludlow, who flew for Pan Am from 1966 to 1991.
It wasn't until 2003 that Gadhafi and Libya accepted responsibility for the Pan Am disaster, with the country formally taking blame and reaching a $2.7 billion US compensation deal with the victims' families.
New Lockerbie bombing charges expected, 32 years after Pan Am attack that killed 270U.