On december 21. 1988, a Pan flight was on its way from frankfurt in germany to New york and it was destroyed by a bomb. The bomb was carried onto the plane in a suitcase stored in the plane’s hold. After the plane was destroyed by the bomb the remains of it landed around a town called Lockerbie in southwest scotland. 270 people from 21 different countries died, including 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. The people on the ground died because of the planes fuel-laden wing section exploded in a fireball. Libya was accused of planning the attack. A possible motive was said to be a number of military confrontations between Libya and the USA of the coast of Libya in the 1980s.
A Libyan man by the name of Abdelbaset al - Megrahi was convicted of murder for the crime in 2001. He was released in 2009 because he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Libya has never admitted responsibility for the actions, however in 2002, Libya offered 10 million US dollars to each family affected by the incident. The perpetrators had intended to crash the plane into the sea and therefore destroying any traceable evidence but the timing of the explosion caused a trail of evidence to land on ground for the police to find.
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