A community portal about Pan Am Flight 103 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow International...
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A community portal about Pan Am Flight 103 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On December 21, 1988, the aircraft flying this route, a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA and named "Clipper Maid of the Seas", was destroyed and the remains landed on Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In the subsequent investigation into the crash, forensic experts determined that 340 to 450 g of plastic explosive had been detonated in the forward cargo hold, triggering a sequence of events that led to the rapid destruction of the aircraft. Winds of 100 knots scattered victims and debris along a 130 km corridor over an area of 845 square miles. The death toll was 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people in the town of Lockerbie.
Learn about the people, economy and history. Interactive Pan Am Flight 103 Follow a timeline of the Lockerbie disaster, read about the bombers and the trial and revisit the fateful day in 1988.
The Associated PressThe flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in this Dec 22, 1988, photo. The families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 say they're disgusted by an inflammatory interview with the son...
By Guy Smith | A Libyan “double agent” who was central to the CIA’s investigation into the Lockerbie bombing exaggerated his importance in Tripoli’s intelligence apparatus and gave little information of value, yet is still living at the US taxpayers’ expense in a witness protection programme...
Five months before the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988, 27-year-old Majid Giaka turned up at the US embassy in Malta and "expressed a ...
By Paul Stott | Few terrorist attacks have had such contrary explanations as the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Sunday evening at 9pm the BBC2’s Conspiracy Files enters the fray, examining some of the claims and counter claims.
One interesting question is whether the programme...
The families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 say they're disgusted by an inflammatory interview with the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that's scheduled to air on the BBC this weekend.
[JURIST] The United States and Libya reached an agreement [US DOS press release; press statement] on Thursday to settle all pending lawsuits brought by US terror victims against Libya, including 26 lawsuits related to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 [BBC backgrounder; JURIST new archive...
The U.S. victims include those who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people and the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco that killed three people and wounded 229.
Jane Davis, whose daughter died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 nearly 20 years ago, struggled Monday to describe her feelings now that the United States and Libya have reached a final agreement settling ...
Libya and the United States settled all outstanding lawsuits by American victims of terrorism on Thursday, clearing the way for the full restoration of diplomatic relations.There were 26 pending lawsuits filed by American citizens against Libya for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over...
December 21: General Interest
1988 : Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland
On this day in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York
explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243
passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie
residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player
detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of
31,000 feet. The disaster, which became the subject of Britain's
largest criminal...
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Convincing story that Libya had little to do with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103: 'In the first three years following the bombing, before a shred of evidence had been produced to incriminate Libya, the Dumfries and Galloway police, the FBI and several other intelligence services around the world all shared the belief that the Lockerbie bombers belonged to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC), a Palestinian rejectionist organisation backed by Iran.' For...
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Libya is close to getting off the hook for millions of dollars in payments to relatives of the 179 Americans who died in the bombing of Pan American Flight 103, amid a stiff new challenge to the 1991 verdict and rapidly warming relations between the erstwhile terrorist state and Washington.
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Plans for a film based on the bombing of a Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 have angered residents of the small village. Two hundred and fifty nine passengers and 11 townspeople were killed when a bomb planted by Libyan terrorists exploded over the village.[...] Read more!
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