Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways ' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London 's Heathrow Airport to New York 's John F. Kennedy International Airport . On Wednesday 21 December 1988 , the aircraft flying this route — a Boeing 747 – 121 named '' Clipper Maid of the Seas '' — was destroyed by a bomb , killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members . Eleven people in Lockerbie , southern Scotland , were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town , bringing total fatalities to 270
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi