Who was one of a group of Syracuse University students on Pan Am flight 103?
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 Seaswas destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members.Eleven people in Lockerbie, south Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270. In 2001, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan man, was convicted of involvement in the bombing and sentenced to life imprisonment, but it is speculated that he may be released on compassionate grounds due to terminal prostate cancer. He is still appealing, and while legal action continues he cannot be transferred to Libya. Pan Am Flight 103 was a Boeing 747-100 named Clipper Maid of the Seas. The jumbo jet was the fifteenth 747 built and was delivered in February 1970,[5] one month afte
