Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
On Wednesday 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, south Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270. In 2001, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan man, was convicted of involvement in the bombing and sentenced to life imprisonment.
| Nationality | Passengers | Crew | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 Belgium | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Bolivia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Canada | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 France | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Germany | 3 | 1 | 4 |
 Hungary | 4 | 0 | 4 |
 India | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 Ireland | 3 | 0 | 3 |
 Israel | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Italy | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Jamaica | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Japan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Philippines | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 South Africa | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Spain | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Sweden | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 United Kingdom | 40 | 1 | 41 |
 United States | 169 | 11 | 180 |
| Total | 243 | 16 | 259 |
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Release of Lockerbie Convict Is Debated
By ALAN COWELL
Published: August 13, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/world/europe/14lockerbie.html?hpw
"The prisoner, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a 57-year-old Libyan national and former intelligence agent who is serving a 27-year term in Scotland, was sentenced in 2001 for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, in which 270 people, the majority of them Americans, died.
But he has appealed the conviction and has sought early release to return to Libya because he has a terminal case of prostate cancer. In May, he made a separate plea to be returned home under a newly ratified prisoner-exchange treaty between Britain and Libya."
The karma circle reversing direction and closing the loop.
Exactly.
Thank You.
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