A strike to Bailey 's credibility came when he took on the case of aggrieved families of passengers on Korean Air Lines Flight 007 , which was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1983 . Though he made several public statements attesting to his commitment to the case , his law firm put in a much smaller number of hours on the case than did the two other law firms working on it . He aggravated other clients by traveling to Libya to discuss defending two men who were charged with blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland , even after undertaking the cause of the relatives of that bombing 's victims . To the latter , the expedition to Tripoli was a clear conflict of interest ; Bailey denied that he intended to defend the Libyans , though a letter he had written to the U.S. Government suggested otherwise
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
F. Lee Bailey