Boeing 747-100 crash, Dec 21, 1988 (270 killed), Lockerbie
Boeing 747-100 accident on December 21, 1988 near Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom with 270 fatalities. Cause: Detonation of an...
- Date: December 21, 1988
- Aircraft: Boeing 747-100
- Location: Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 270
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Detonation of an improvised explosive device in the forward cargo hold, which caused the aircraft to break up in flight.
Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 registered N739PA, was destroyed in flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, on the evening of 21 December 1988 after an improvised explosive device detonated in the forward cargo hold. All 259 people aboard and 11 people on the ground were killed. The bomb was reportedly hidden in a radio cassette player transferred from a feeder flight from Frankfurt.