Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via stopovers in London and New York City. Shortly after 19:00 GMT on 21 December 1988, the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid
The remains of the forward section
N739PA, the aircraft involved, seen in 1987
Air Accident Investigation Branch model showing fuselage and tail fracture lines and ground locations of parts: Green—southern wreckage trail; red—northern wreckage trail; grey—impact crater; yellow—Rosebank (Lockerbie); white—not recovered/identified.
Dryfesdale Cemetery memorial stone dedicated to Bernt Carlsson
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 dur
Pan Am Flight 103
…warrants were issued for two Libyan Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya officers. In 1999, after repeated negotiations and United Nations sanctions, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allowed extradition of the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, the Netherlands. In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was found guilty of 270 counts of murder…
Gaddafi at the African Union summit in 2009
Gaddafi at an Arab summit in Libya in 1969, shortly after the September Revolution that toppled King Idris I. Gaddafi sits in military uniform in the middle, surrounded by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) and Syrian President Nureddin al-Atassi (right).
In 1971, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Libya's Gaddafi and Syria's Hafez al-Assad signed an agreement to form a federal Union of Arab Republics. The agreement never materialized into a federal union between the three Arab states.
Gaddafi addresses students, 1970