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Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing.[1] Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
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Date | 21 December 1988 (1988-12-21) |
Summary | Terrorist bombing |
Site | Lockerbie, Scotland 55°06′56″N 003°21′31″W |
Aircraft type | Boeing 747–121 |
Aircraft name | Clipper Maid of the Seas |
Operator | Pan American World Airways |
Registration | N739PA |
Flight origin | Frankfurt am Main Airport, Frankfurt, West Germany |
1st stopover | London Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom |
2nd stopover | John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States |
Destination | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit, United States |
Passengers | 243 |
Crew | 16 |
Fatalities | 270 (all, including 11 on the ground) |
Survivors | 0 |
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually asserted his innocence.
[Paragraph about Gaddafi's "acceptance of responsibility for the actions of his agents", compensation, lifting of sanctions and Saif al-Gaddafi's "playing with words" statement.]