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Convicted of possessing biological agents and toxins in this man, the convicted bomber of pan am flight 103. in 2009, 21 years after the plane exploded over scotland, he still had a valid dispatcher certificate. the globe investigation also found lax oversight allowed a convicted criminal from iran to steal the identity of a professional u.s. pilot. the iranian man wasnt caught until he crashed his plane in denmark. another man attained a valid u.s. pilots license using identity of a dead man. p...

Voice recorder sounded like a possible explosion. could that be possible? panam flight 103 was brought down by a bomb placed in the hug gauge hold. the bomb exploded as the jet was at 31,000 feet. the final moments captured on the cockpit voice recorder left little for investigators to work with. just 170 milliseconds. >> its going to be loud enough to severely overload the input system to the cockpit voice recorder. >> reporter: in the final moment flight 103s voice recorder shows nothing on th...

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>> reporter: is it a bird, plane, a man in a jet pack flying around the statute of liberty. >> it was awesome. dream come true. i was having a blast. >> reporter: the actual blast off from a boat was fairly gentle, the founder of jet pack aviation david is the test pilot and yes, he and his chief designer had to get all kinds of approvals to pull this off. >> the faa asked what is it? is it? a jet? is that? >> reporter: the flight lasted about five minutes, the pilot uses hand controls and his b...

Showed not one blip but four before the plane was coming apart. and then 46 1/2 seconds after that loud noise, flight 103 crashed into the area surrounding lockerbie scotland. 270 people died. 11 of them were on the ground. >> its pretty stunning. and when you hear the quickness of that sound and slow it down, its still so quick. this is what they are looking at, this right here, one of the flight voice recorders. >> its a flight data recorder. its an older model, probably more similar to what w...

Who seemed to be in the right place at the right time. he was on the same flights as the one convicted bomb. he seemed to be a technical expert but he was a ghost. he was a name, a passport number, a fingerprint on landing card when he went in and out of malta on the libyan coast. but no one knew who was and the libyans refused to admit he even existed. i spent years conducting interview and piecing together a puzzle of papers to establish he existed. then found a witness who worked with him on ...

That seems to be a great deal of intelligence out there. but, again, thats why its so important to get an investigati investigation, because an investigation will determine whether or not it was intentional or even by accident. >> another thing thats different here, this is operating in a war zone. talk about the difficulties that you had investigating pan a.m. flight 103 in lockerbie, which was a quiet town, peaceful region in scotland, versus the investigators here facing. >> right, the pan am...

Holding to account of the exact people who fired the shots. i agree with that. i do think the sort of cost benefit analysis in european capitals is shifting. right now, its kind of look warm. we go along with the russian -- with the americans because they have an interest in pursuing this. but what has happened in the past 48 hours has got lots of people interested in this. people are enraged not only in holland but other countries across europe. they want their leaders to become more involved. ...

And we really found that with a.c.c.e.s.s., the same thing, people calling and reliving it and wanting to talk about their loved ones again. and to are me, i was lucky. a woman lost her fiance on pan am flight 103. she allowed me to talk about him and hold out that hope. because thats what i needed to get through, was to hold on to that. and keep him alive. >> i saw you in an interview saying, and it just made so much sense, your organization actually sets up like-minded people, meaning a spouse...

Bracing for bad weather across much of the nation. as winter storms bring rain, ice and snow. about 95 million americans are expected to travel by road or air during this holiday season. and four men are charged with murder and other counts in that deadly car jacking in new jersey. theyre accused of killing a 30-year-old man outside an upscale mall on sunday. today marks 25 years since the bombing of pan am flight 103. memorial events taking place here in the u.s. at arlington national cemet...