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Rescue personnel carry a body away from the airplane crash site in a farmer's field east of Lockerbie, Scotland, after a mid-air bombing in December 1988 killed all 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 people on the ground

Rescue personnel carry a body away from the airplane crash site in a farmer's field east of Lockerbie, Scotland, after a mid-air bombing in December 1988 killed all 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 people on the ground

Rescue personnel carry a body away from the airplane crash site in a farmer's field east of Lockerbie, Scotland, after a mid-air bombing in December 1988 killed all 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 people on the ground

When Pan AM Flight 103 exploded over the skies of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 passengers and a further 11 people on the ground, Scotland's police forces were suddenly thrust into the centre of the largest terrorist investigation in Britain's history.

As far as the investigators were concerned, the hunt for those responsible finished 13 years later with the successful conviction of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer whom a jury at a special court in the Netherlands decided was the man who placed the bomb on the plane.


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