The explosion left 259 passengers and crew members—including 190 Americans—dead.
A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 is now in U.S. custody, according to. The 1988 flight from London to New York exploded midair, leaving 259 passengers and crew members and 11 people dead from the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland. 190 Americans were killed in the attack. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud was in a Libyan prison for unrelated crimes when the U.S.
announced charges against him in 2020, including for the destruction of an aircraft resulting in death. The charges came after his alleged role in the explosion came to light in a 2015 PBS special produced by Ken Dornstein, whose brother was killed on the flight. “If there’s one person still alive who could tell the story of the bombing of Flight 103, and put to rest decades of unanswered questions about how exactly it was carried out—and why—it’s Mr.
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Suspect in 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing in U.S. custody, officials sayPan Am flight 103, traveling from London to New York, exploded over Scotland in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground.
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Suspect in 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing in U.S. custody, officials sayPan Am flight 103, traveling from London to New York, exploded over Scotland in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground.
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Suspect in 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing taken into custody by USBREAKING: Libyan man accused of building the device in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, is now in U.S. custody, officials tell ABC News.
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Lockerbie bomb maker suspect is in U.S. custody, Scottish prosecutors sayThe U.S. announced charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago. The bomb on board the Boeing 747 killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground, the deadliest ever militant attack in Britain.
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