Butuh waktu 6 tahun dan biaya sekitar 800 juta poundsterling!! Dan sekarang.. Kapal ini akhirnya akan di resmikan... kelaut lepas dengan pelayaran ditetapkan bulan Desember ini.
Kapal itu diserahkan kepada Royal Caribbean cruiseline di pelabuhan Finlandia Turku oleh pembuat kapal STX.
keunggulan kapal ini :
- 16 deck tinggi, atau 65 meter (213 kaki) di atas permukaan air - panjang 1.180 kaki dan lebar 154 kaki - memiliki kapasitas untuk menampung 6.360 penumpang dan 2.160 anggota kru. - Sarana hiburan Tamu, mendaki tebing di atas laut - taman pertama di atas laut, - pos baris yang diagonal ras sembilan-deck di atas udara terbuka atrium, - 28 bertingkat perkotaan suite bergaya membual loteng lantai ke langit-langit jendela.
ini buntut belakang kapalnya.. terdapat fasilitas hiburan untuk Tamu - panjat tebing - theater - kolam renang
ini ruang peristirahatan para Tamu banyak banget kamarnya...
LOCHERBIE
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Wednesday 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members.[1] Eleven people in Lockerbie, southern Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270. As a result, the event has been named by the media as the Lockerbie Bombing.In 2001, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, a Libyan, was convicted of involvement in the bombing and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 20 August 2009, the Scottish Government released him on compassionate grounds to return to Libya as he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer and had a life expectancy of less than 3 months.
Criminal inquiry
Known as the Lockerbie bombingand the Lockerbie air disaster in the UK, it was described by Scotland's Lord Advocate as the UK's largest criminal inquiry led by the smallest police force in Britain, namely, Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary.[2]After a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, during which 15,000 witness statements were taken, indictments for murder were issued on 13 November 1991 against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, the LAA station manager in Luqa Airport, Malta. United Nations sanctions against Libya and protracted negotiations with the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi secured the handover of the accused on 5 April 1999 to Scottish police at Camp Zeist, Netherlands, having been chosen as a neutral venue for their trial.Both accused chose not to give evidence in court. On 31 January 2001, Megrahi was convicted of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges and sentenced to 27 years in prison but Fhimah was acquitted. Megrahi's appeal against his conviction was refused on 14 March 2002, and his application to the European Court of Human Rights was declared inadmissible in July 2003. On 23 September 2003, Megrahi applied to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) for his conviction to be reviewed, and on 28 June 2007 the SCCRC announced its decision to refer the case to theCourt of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh after it found he "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice".[3]Megrahi served just over 8½ years of his sentence in Greenock Prison, throughout which time he maintained that he was innocent of the charges against him. He was released from prison on compassionate grounds on 20 August 2009.
Flight plan
Pan Am Flight 103 was a Boeing 747-100 named Clipper Maid of the Seas. The jumbo jet was the fifteenth 747 built and was delivered in February 1970,[4] one month after the first 747 entered service with Pan Am.On Wednesday 21 December 1988, Clipper Maid of the Seas touched down at London Heathrow Airport at noon (GMT) after a flight from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, USA. The aircraft was parked at stand K14, Terminal 3, where it was guarded for two hours by Pan Am's security company, Alert Security, but was otherwise not watched.The first leg of Pan Am Flight 103 was a feeder flight, Pan Am Flight 103A, from Frankfurt International Airport, West Germany, to London Heathrow. Forty-seven of the 89 passengers on the Boeing 727, which was parked at stand Kilo 16 adjacent to the Boeing 747, transferred to Pan Am Flight 103 for the transatlantic flight from London Heathrow to New York JFK.There were 243 passengers and 16 crew members on board, led by pilot Captain James Bruce "Jim" MacQuarrie,[5][6][7] First Officer Raymond Ronald "Ray" Wagner,[6][7][8] and Flight Engineer Jerry Don Avritt.[6][7] Mary Geraldine Murphy, 51, served as the head purser.[6] The flight was scheduled to depart at 18:00 GMT, and pushed back from the gate at 18:04 GMT, but because of a rush-hour delay, it took off from runway 27R at 18:25 GMT, flying northwest out of Heathrow, a so-called Daventry departure. Once clear of Heathrow, the crew steered due north toward Scotland. At 18:56 GMT, as the aircraft approached the border, it reached its cruising altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m), and MacQuarrie throttled the engines back to cruising power.At 19:00 GMT, PA103 was picked up by the Scottish Area Control Centre at Prestwick, Scotland, where it needed clearance to begin its flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Alan Topp, an air traffic controller, made contact with the 747 as it entered Scottish airspace.Captain MacQuarrie replied: "Good evening Scottish, Clipper one zero three. We are at level three one zero." Then First Officer Wagner spoke: "Clipper 103 requesting oceanic clearance." These were the last words heard from the aircraft.
Explosion
A Boeing 747-100 similar to Pan Am 103. The explosion occured almost directly under the 'P' in the Pan Am logo of the plane.At 19:01 GMT, Topp watched Flight 103 approach the corner of the Solway Firth on his screen and observed as it crossed the coast at 19:02 GMT. On his scope, the aircraft showed transponder code or "squawk"—0357 and flight level—310. When the airliner's transponder stopped transmitting, it was flying at 31,000 feet (9,400 m) on a heading of 316 degrees magnetic, and at a speed of 313 knots (580 km/h) calibrated airspeed, at 19:02:46.9. Subsequent analysis of the radar returns by RSRE concluded that the aircraft was tracking 321° (grid) and travelling at a ground speed of 434 knots (804 km/h).
Contact is lost
At that moment, SSR contact with the aircraft was lost. Topp tried to make contact with Captain MacQuarrie, and asked a nearby KLM flight to do the same, but there was no reply. Where there should have been one radar return on his screen, there were four, and as the seconds passed, the returns began to fan out.Comparison of the cockpit voice recorder with the radar returns showed that eight seconds after the explosion, wreckage had a 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) spread.
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