The Horrific Terrorist Attack That Brought Down a Plane over Lockerbie

Four days before Christmas, a small town was devastated. What happened would go on to devastate the world.

Just before Christmas in 1988, the United Kingdom was the victim of one of the deadliest terror attacks in history. A bomb planted on Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone on board and several on the ground.

Three hundred tons of plane debris was spread over 845 square miles. The plane carried twenty-one nationalities; how…