Napa Man Among Bombing Victims on Pan Am 103

The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi this week signals the end of a long and tortured chapter in the history of American airline disasters, and one that touched Napa with the death of a 41-year-old flight attendant aboard Pan Am Flight 103.

Paul Isaac Garrett was one of two male flight attendants killed when a bomb exploded on the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland Dec. 21, 1988.

In all, 243 passengers and 16 crewmembers died in the bombing and crash, which also killed 11 people on the ground.

In 2003, Libya formally took responsibility for the bombing.

According to an internet tribute by a former fellow flight attendant, Garrett, of Napa, was "a gourmet cook, oil painter, and free-form sculptor, as well as a flight attendant."

Napa Patch welcomes your memories of him as well.