The remains o the forward section frae Clipper Maid of the Seas | |
Bombin | |
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Date | 21 December 1988 |
Summary | Terrorist bombin |
Steid | Lockerbie, Scotland 55°06′56″N 003°21′31″W / 55.11556°N 3.35861°WCoordinates: 55°06′56″N 003°21′31″W / 55.11556°N 3.35861°W |
Aircraft type | Boeing 747–121 |
Aircraft name | Clipper Maid of the Seas |
Operator | Pan American World Airways |
Registration | N739PA |
Flicht oreegin | Frankfurt am Main Airport, Frankfurt, West Germany |
1st stapower | Lunnon Heathrow Airport, Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick |
2nt stapower | John F. Kennedy Internaitional Airport, New York Ceety, Unitit States |
Destination | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne Coonty Airport, Detroit, Unitit States |
Passengers | 243 |
Crew | 16 |
Fatalities | 270 (includin 11 on grund) |
Survivors | 0[1][2] |
Pan Am Flight 103 wis a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight frae Frankfurt tae Detroit via Lunnon an New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operatin the transatlantic leg o the route, wis destroyed bi a bomb, killin aw 243 passengers and16 crew, in what becam kent as the Lockerbie bombin.[3] Lairge sections o the aircraft crashed ontae residential auries o Lockerbie, Scotland, killin 11 mair fowk on the grund.