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Dec 17, 2020 01:04 PM EST
Here are the facts about the Pan Am Flight 103 that blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland. The tragedy took the lives of many people after the takeoff from London on December 21, 1988.
The Pan Am Flight 103 at Lockerbie, Scotland blew up at 31,000 feet after it left London. At approximately 38 minutes while in the air, it exploded.
Onboard were 259 people riding the Boeing 747 that would never reach its destination. All with the passengers who died, eleven people killed by accident on the ground, reported CNN.
American and British investigators investigated why the plane was destroyed, gathered the debris, and found parts of the circuit board and timer suspected to be a bomb, instead of any mechanical malfunction that caused the explosion.
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Pan Am Flight 103 Fast Facts CNN 12/22/2020
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, 38 minutes after takeoff from London.
Two hundred fifty-nine people on board the New York-bound Boeing 747 were killed, along with 11 people on the ground.
Afterward, United States and British investigators found fragments of a circuit board and a timer, and ruled that a bomb, not mechanical failure, caused the explosion.
Libyans Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah were tried for the bombing. Al Megrahi was found guilty, while Fhimah was found not guilty.
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The suspects were tried in a Scottish court at Camp Zeist, a former US air base 20 miles south of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. The Dutch declared 30 acres of the 100-acre base Scottish territory so that the trial could be held in a neutral country as al Megrahi, Fhimah and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had wanted. There was no jury; three Scottish judges pre