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Frankfurt airport
The deserted dead of night in Europe's second busiest airport, serving a city at the heart of the new Europe now that it is home to the new European Central Bank. This is also the airport where, in 1988, a brown suitcase was transferred, without its owner, from an Air Malta plane to Pan Am Flight 103 bound for the US, via Lockerbie. n
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