Today in History

December 21, 1988

Pan Am Flight 103

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded en route from London to New York in Scotland airspace. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed, as well as 11 of the residents of the town of Lockerbie under the explosion.

The attack was believed to be perpetrated as an assault against the United States as 189 of the victims were US citizens.

British intelligence and the FBI determined that two Libyan intelligence agents planted the bomb on the plane, and the country of Libya paid $8 million to each family of the victims and $30 million to Pan Am Airlines 15 years later in 2003.

In December of 2022, the United States took custody of one of the alleged bomb makers, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi.

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