Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 was a scheduled Pan Am service from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City. On 21 December 1988, a bomb destroyed its Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 residents on the ground. The Lockerbie Bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in United Kingdom history. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 and remained the only person convicted of the bombing.

Date: 21 December 1988
Deaths: 270 people
Conviction: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 2001

Sources and credits

Article: Pan Am Flight 103 (English Wikipedia)
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Illustration: By Air Accident Investigation Branch. OGL 2 · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Air Accident Investigation Branch, Air Accident Investigation Branch Report No: 2/1990 - Report on the accident to Boeing 747-121, N739PA, at Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland on 21 December 1988 Report name: 2/1990 Boeing 747-121, N739PA http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/formal_reports/2_1990_n739pa.cfm Appendix B, Image B-9 "Photograph of nose and flight deck" http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/2-1990%20N739PA%20Append.pdf
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