No survivors
Pan Am 103, a Boeing 747 en route from London to New York, blew up 35 minutes into its flight, killing all 259 people on board and 11 others on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland.
British impact
The Dec. 21, 1988, disaster remains the worst terrorist attack on British soil, and it resulted in the most expensive criminal prosecution in British history.
U.S. impact
The victims included 189 Americans, 35 of them students at Syracuse University.
The probe
It took six days for British authorities to find the evidence needed to conclude that the disaster was caused by a bomb. The terrorist attack was variously blamed on Palestinian radicals, Iran and Syria, but the U.S. and Britain focused on Libya.
The Libyan connection
Three years after the disaster, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was blaming “meteorological conditions” for the crash. But eventually Libya admitted its terrorist role.
