The Flight
The Clipper Maid of the Seas operated the transatlantic leg of Flight 103, which had originated in Frankfurt, West Germany, on a Boeing 727. At London Heathrow, passengers and their luggage on the feeder flight transferred directly onto the Boeing 747, along with interline luggage not accompanied by anyone. The aircraft pushed back from the gate at 18:04, and lifted off at 18:25. Captain James Bruce MacQuarrie (55), a veteran with 11,000 flight hours, first officer Raymond Ronald Wagner (52), and flight engineer Jerry Don Avritt (46), flew northwest into the Daventry departure over the Midlands and leveled off at 31,000 ft about 25 miles (40 km) north of Manchester at 18:56. The 13 person strong flight attendant crew on duty in the cabin were purser Mary Geraldine Murphy (51), purser Milutin Velimirovich (35) and flight attendants Siv Ulla Engstrom (51), Elisabeth Nichole Avoyne-Clemens (44), Noelle Lydie Campbell-Berti (41), Elke Etha Kühne (43), Maria Nieves Larracoechea (39), Irja Syhnove Skabo (38), Paul Isaac Garrett (41), Lilibeth Tobila Macalolooy (27), Jocelyn Reina (26), Myra Josephine Royal (30) and Stacie Denise Franklin (20). The flight attendants had between 28 years and 8 months seniority, with an average of 14 years apiece. Flight 103 was scheduled to continue from New York/JFK to its terminating point Detroit in Michigan, with a change of equipment and crew (to another Boeing 727) at JFK.
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