page_title: Pan Am Flight 103
section_title: Notable passengers
hierarchical_section_title: Pan Am Flight 103 / Victims / Passengers / Notable passengers
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial stone dedicated to the most prominent of the 270 people killed at Lockerbie on 21 December 1988: Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson. The inscription reads: "In remembrance of a dedicated internationalist and a committed social democrat on the tenth anniversary of the sad loss of Bernt Carlsson (1938-1988), Secretary-General of the Socialist International (1976-1983), distinguished in his service to Sweden, the international community and the United Nations until his untimely death on flight Pan Am 103." (Photo by George DeBaly, June 2009, in the Garden of Remembrance at the Lockerbie Air Disaster Memorial in Dryfesdale Cemetery.)
context_page_description: Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City. 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 in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto a residential street in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 people on the ground. With a total of 270 people killed, it is the deadliest terrorist 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, 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, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, 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.
context_section_description: Prominent among the passenger victims was the 50-year-old UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, who would have attended the signing ceremony of the New York Accords at the UN headquarters the following day.  James Fuller, the American automotive executive who worked for Volkswagen was also on this flight. He was returning home from a meeting with Volkswagen executives in Germany when he boarded this flight. Also aboard was Irish Olympic sailor Peter Dix
  and rock musician Paul Jeffreys.
caption: Dryfesdale Cemetery memorial stone dedicated to Bernt Carlsson
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