Pan American flight 103 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/06/2019

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00:03:28 1 Aircraft
00:04:25 2 Flight
00:06:00 3 Explosion and collision timeline
00:06:10 3.1 Contact is lost
00:08:34 3.2 Disintegration of aircraft
00:10:22 3.3 Fuselage impact
00:12:33 4 Victims
00:13:08 4.1 Crew
00:15:01 4.2 Passengers
00:15:10 4.2.1 Syracuse University students
00:15:33 4.2.2 Notable passengers
00:16:08 4.2.3 US government officials
00:16:46 4.3 Lockerbie residents
00:20:59 5 Prior alerts
00:21:13 5.1 Helsinki warning
00:25:12 5.2 PLO warning
00:25:45 6 Claims of responsibility
00:29:28 7 Investigation
00:29:38 7.1 Civil investigation
00:29:47 7.1.1 Crash site
00:32:08 7.1.2 Witnesses
00:35:23 7.1.3 21st century
00:38:51 7.2 Criminal inquiry
00:41:42 8 Trial, appeals, and release
00:44:35 8.1 Appeal
00:47:47 8.2 SCCRC review
00:50:05 8.3 Second appeal
00:52:29 8.4 Compassionate release and controversy
00:56:00 9 Alleged motives
00:56:10 9.1 Libya
00:59:54 9.2 Demands for independent inquiry
01:05:13 9.3 Claims of Gaddafi involvement
01:05:49 9.4 Alternative theories
01:07:24 9.5 PCAST statement
01:08:57 10 Compensation
01:09:07 10.1 From Libya
01:16:35 10.1.1 February 2011
01:18:19 10.1.2 Contingency fees for lawyers
01:20:04 10.2 From Pan Am
01:20:36 11 Memorials and tributes
01:21:16 11.1 United States
01:22:46 11.1.1 The Women of Lockerbie
01:23:35 11.2 Lockerbie
01:24:46 11.2.1 Benefit game
01:25:35 12 Wreckage of the aircraft
01:26:48 13 See also



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SUMMARY
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Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew – a disaster known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 people on the ground. With a total of 270 people killed, it was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United Kingdom.
Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands, after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012 as the only person to be convicted for the attack.
In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. Acceptance of responsibility was part of a series of requirements laid out by a UN resolution in order for sanctions against Libya to be lifted. Libya said it had to accept responsibility because a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi, convicted in 2000 of planting the bomb, was a government employee.During the Libyan Civil War in 2011, former Minister of Justice Mustafa Abdul Jalil claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing, though this was later denied.Investigators have long believed that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi did not act alone and have been reported as questioning retired Stasi agents about their possible role in the attack. 
Some critics of Megrahi’s prosecution believe that the Lockerbie bombing was carried out by Palestinian terrorists on behalf of Iran, in retaliation for the US downing of an Iranian passenger jet in 1988. Some rela ...