Lockerbie Revisited: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Lockerbie Revisited: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Published: August 21, 2026

Duration: 57:53

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was flying from London to New York when a bomb exploded on board as the aircraft passed over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.


All 259 passengers and crew were killed, along with 11 people on the ground. With 270 lives lost, the Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack ever carried out on British soil.


But nearly four decades later, the story of Lockerbie is far from over.


As the case returns to the headlines and a new trial approaches in the United States, we revisit one of...