the pro-destructionists - as they became known - response to all this was to argue that there had always been aircraft accidents - they pointed to tenerife in 1977 ; mount osutaka in 1985 - they went further still in their attempts to reunite the disparate factions , when these previous examples were dismissed as being the higher we equivalent of natural disasters - one anti-d. spokesman memorably comparing the orango bay runway crash as being beautiful like a volcanic eruption - by reminding the doubters that there had been plenty of past occasions of terrorism in the skies , none of which had previously troubled their religious sensibilities - the laila khalid hijacking was recalled , as was entebbe , so too lockerbie .