Pan Am flight 103, traveling from London to New York, exploded over Scotland in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground.
LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 1988: The wreckage of the Pan-Am 747 plane which was blown up en route to JFK airport by Libyan terroists.
The U.S. Justice Department confirmed the information, adding that "he is expected to make his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia." It gave no information on how Mas'ud came to be in U.S. custody. The U.S. Justice Department announced new charges against Mas'ud in December 2020, on the 32nd anniversary of the bombing.Aircraft debris and destroyed houses in the village of Lockerbie are seen from the air following the midair explosion of Pan Ams flight 103, 'Clipper Maid of the Seas in Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom, on Thursday, December 22, 1988.
In 2001, former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of bombing the flight. He is to date the only person convicted over the attack. He lost one appeal and abandoned another before being freed in 2009 on compassionate grounds because he was terminally ill with cancer.A breakthrough in the investigation came when U.S.
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