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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the only person ever convicted over the terror attackCredit: PA Media
The disaster - Britain s largest terror attack - killed 270 people including 11 Lockerbie locals killed by falling debris.
Ex-Libyan intelligence officer Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years - the only person convicted of the atrocity.
He was released from jail in 2009 on compassionate grounds while terminally ill with cancer and died in Libya in three years later.
Top judges at the High Court in Edinburgh have now rejected an appeal to overturn his conviction following a hearing in November.
Friend of Lockerbie bombing victim from Leicester hopes new legal case in US will finally offer answers
Rajesh Ramses, 35, was flying to America to start a new life when Pan Am flight 103 was brought down over Scotland
Terror - 270 men, women and children were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie (Image: Daily Mirror)
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Dec 17 2020, 6:32 ET
PAN Am flight 103 blew up in the sky 31,000ft over Lockerbie in Scotland just 38 minutes after taking off killing all 259 passengers.
According to the latest reports, the U.S is unsealing charges against a suspect they allege was the top bomb-maker for Moammar Gadhafi.
4 Pan Am Flight 103 was flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie a bomb was detonated aboard the flightCredit: News UK Ltd
When was the Lockerbie bombing air disaster?
The Lockerbie disaster occurred on 21 December 1988.
What was the Pan Am flight 103 disaster?
Pan Am Flight 103 was flying from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York while over the Scottish town of Lockerbie a bomb was detonated aboard the plane called Clipper Maid of the Seas.