Pan Am Flight 103

Pam AM Flight 103 was a scheduled passenger flight from London, England to New York City on December 21, 1988 when a bomb placed in a suitcase by former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi exploded in a cargo compartment while the aircraft was over Lockerbie, Scotland. The deaths of 259 people in the aircraft and 11 residents on the ground shocked the world; the release in 2009 of Al Megrahi from prison by Scottish officials - and his hero's welsome in Libya - outraged both governments of the United States and Britain.