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Life after Lockerbie: Legacy indelible 35 years after terror attack on plane thenationalnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenationalnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Just after 7pm on 21 December, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, bound for New York, exploded over Lockerbie. In an instant the quiet Scottish town was transformed into a smouldering hellscape – houses wrecked, bodies strewn across the golf course, the air thick with aviation fuel. It was clear that this was no accident: a bomb had gone off. Until 9/11 it was the deadliest terrorist attack in US history, and it remains Britain’s worst. Two hundred and seventy people died.