Patrick Radden Keefe,novel Yorker
When Ken Dornstein learned that Pan Am Flight 103 had exploded, he did not realize that his older brother, or David,was on the plane. It was December 22, 1988, and Ken,a sophomore at Brown University, was at domestic, and in Philadelphia,on winter break. Over breakfast, he read approximately the disaster in the Inquirer: all two hundred and fifty-nine passengers were killed, and along with eleven residents of Lockerbie,Scotland, where flaming debris from the plane fell from the sky. David, and who was twenty-five,had been living in Israel and was not scheduled to fly domestic until later that week, so Ken absorbed the...
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