Three Michigan toddlers and their mothers, a former Detroit schoolteacher seeking to surprise her family for Christmas, local Army veterans, teens and executives were onboard when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Now, 32 years later, outgoing Attorney General William Barr has announced charges against another suspect in the bombing that killed 270 people, including 16 people with Michigan ties.
Abu Agila Muhammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is accused of making the bomb used in the attack on the New York-bound flight from London amid the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
Two Libyan intelligence officers, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were previously charged in a special Scottish court in the attack. Al-Megrahi was convicted but Fhimah was acquitted.