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Pan Am Flight 103 The remains of the forward section from Clipper Maid of the Seas on Tundergarth Hill Bombing Date 21 December 1988 (1988-12-21) Summary In-flight breakup due to terrorist bombing Site Lockerbie, Scotland 55°06′56″N 003°21′31″W / 55.11556°N 3.35861°W / 55.11556; -3.35861 Total fatalities 270 Aircraft Aircraft type Boeing 747-121 Aircraft name Clipper ...
The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103. The investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 began at 19:03 on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103, en route from Frankfurt to Detroit with stopovers in London and New York City, was blown up over Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The perpetrators had intended the plane to crash ...
Pan Am Flight 103 crashed to the ground in Lockerbie on December 21, 1988 (PA) A remembrance scholar from Syracuse University will attend a rose-laying ceremony in Dryfesdale Cemetery with pupils ...
April 6, 1944. Pilgrim 100B NC742N crashed 10 miles east of Nome, Alaska due to pilot error, killing all six on board. August 8, 1944. Flight 218, operated by Sikorsky S-42 (NC823M) Hong Kong Clipper, lost control and crashed on takeoff from Antilla Airport, Cuba, killing 17 of 31 on board. [9] January 8, 1945.
Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down as it flew from London to New York. All 259 passengers and crew on board the airliner were killed, along with 11 residents of Lockerbie who died when wreckage ...
The Justice Department on Monday unsealed charges accusing a Libyan bomb expert in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and ...
The Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial began on 3 May 2000, more than 11 years after the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988. The 36-week bench trial took place at a specially convened Scottish Court in the Netherlands set up under Scots law and held at a disused United States Air Force base called Camp Zeist near Utrecht .
Lockerbie is known internationally as the place where, on 21 December 1988, the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed after a terrorist bomb on board detonated. In the United Kingdom, the event is often referred to as the "Lockerbie disaster" or the "Lockerbie bombing".