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Pan Am Flight 103

Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, while the aircraft was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destroyed by a bomb that had been planted on board, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed in a residential street in Lockerbie, killing 11 residents. With a total of 270 fatalities, it is the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom, as well as its deadliest aviation disaster.
  • Aircraft 

  • Flight 

  • Contact is lost 

  • Disintegration of aircraft 

  • Fuselage impact 

  • Crew 

  • Notable passengers 

  • US government officials 

  • Lockerbie residents 

  • Helsinki warning 

  • PLO warning 

  • Claims of responsibility 

  • Crash site 

  • Witnesses 

  • Criminal inquiry 

  • Trial, appeals, and release 

  • Appeal 

  • SCCRC review 

  • Second appeal 

  • Compassionate release and controversy 

  • Libya 

  • Demands for independent inquiry 

  • Claims of Gaddafi involvement 

  • Alternative theories 

  • PCAST statement 

  • From Libya 

  • February 2011 

  • From Pan Am 

  • United States 

  • The Women of Lockerbie 

  • Lockerbie 

  • Wreckage of the aircraft