In Lockerbie, Downing of Pan Am Flight 103 Still Casts a Long Shadow
Scars remain in the Scottish town where 11 people were killed by debris from the 1988 bombing By Updated Dec. 18, 2020 5:01 am ET
LOCKERBIE, Scotland The sky rained fire on a chill December night here in 1988. Karen Gass was 26 years old at the time. She didn’t realize at first what was happening.
“I ran down the street, and there was rubble everywhere like it was a war-zone,” she recalled on Thursday. “The whole place was lit up.”
The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 ripped a scar across this Scottish town near the border with England, and memories and ongoing investigations and court cases mean the tragedy more than three decades ago continues to cast a long shadow.