Lockerbie
After a horrible tragedy comes a story of hope: A daughter and stepson of Pan Am Flight 103 passengers will be married next week.
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Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103, which departed London's Heathrow International Airport for New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Forensic experts determined that plastic explosive had been detonated in the forward cargo hold of the Boeing 747-121.
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Wrecked houses and a deep gash in the ground in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland—damage caused by the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988. The death toll was 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people in the town of Lockerbie.
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Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is hugged by Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, upon his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya, on August 20, 2009. The only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, he returned home to Libya to die after he was released from a Scottish prison.
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Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi escorted by security officers in Tripoli, Libya on February 18,1992.
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The reconstructed remains of Pan Am Flight 103 in a warehouse in Farnborough, England in 2008.
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Evidence of what is believed to be fragments of the bomb which blew up Pan Am Flight 103.
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Visitors pay their respects at the memorial to the dead of Pan Am Flight 103 in the burial ground in the Scottish border town of Lockerbie, December 9, 1998.
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Clockwise from left: Lia Stratis Clark, Christopher Stratis, Elia Stratis, Mary Kay Stratis, and Sonia Stratis. Sonia was 7, the youngest of three children, when her father, Elia, a globetrotting forensic accountant, was killed over Scotland.
Chris Tedeschi and Sonia Stratis.
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