I have a previously unpublished story about Pan Am 103:

[PCIntern]

Among my patients is a lady who was married at the time to a significant booster for Syracuse University. They had accompanied the thirty-five students to Europe where they were studying and were due to take the flight back to the US.

But fascinatingly and remarkably, my patient is an Italian lady of great class and style, brought up among the wealthiest and most influential and well-educated of that country and of course...OF COURSE...she had her own tailor in Milan. During the trip she noticed that she had been gaining a little weight after her son was born and decided on the spur of the moment to journey instead to Milan to have her clothes mannequin altered to fit her new shape in order that her tailor could style her suits to perfection so the alterations, once shipped to America, would be minimal.

So they were not on board the jet as it was blown out of the sky and she and her husband survived. He went on to be the president of the mortgage bankers association of Philadelphia and rise up through the ranks to be one of the most significant people in real estate in the Delaware Valley. His decisions affected the lives of many thousands of people over the years. His wife is still a patron of the arts and literature and even into her late eighties is somewhat influential here.

So the decision at the last minute to change plans altered thousands of people's lives as a result of not being on board the ill-fated aircraft. And yes, she had much survivors-guilt and always, near tears, referred to those passengers and crew as "those poor poor souls".

Just thought I'd pass this along...

[cpamomfromtexas]

1. Thank you for posting.

[Duppers]

2. Interesting

I flew over the crash site later on the same day from NYC into Gatwick. Our pilot made no mention of the crash that I only learned about after we had landed.