Engelhardt is the widow of Tony Hawkins , one of the 259 victims aboard Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded on Wednesday , 21 December 1988 over Lockerbie , Scotland when a bomb was detonated . She attracted public notice shortly after the bombing and again after the 2001 verdict announcements in the trial of Lameen Khalifa Fhima ( who was acquitted ) and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi ( who was found guilty ) . She spoke out against Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi during his visit to New York City on 23 September 2009 to give his speech to the United Nations General Assembly . She spoke against BP during a 19 July 2010 news conference at Syracuse University in New York where families and lawmakers including Senator Charles E. Schumer urged a federal probe of any BP role in the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Helen Engelhardt