On 20 December 1988 , Swire 's 23-year-old daughter Flora , who wanted to fly to the United States to spend Christmas with her American boyfriend , had little difficulty in booking a seat on the next day 's half-empty transatlantic Pan Am Flight 103 . Flora died when it crashed at the town of Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 including 11 on the ground . Investigations were soon launched in the United States and the United Kingdom
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Jim Swire