Kukui Roadhouse: 12/21/88 Pan American Airways Flight 103

Pan American Airways Flight 103

Wednesday, December 21, 1988
Liquid fire and twisted metal from an exploding jumbo jet rained from the skies over southern Scotland, sowing death and horror in a sleepy town brightly decorated for the Christmas holiday. All 258 people aboard Pan Am Flight 103, en route from London to New York were killed.
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Wednesday, December 21, 1988
(UPI) - A Pan American jumbo jet carrying 258 people on a Christmas flight from London to New York crashed into a village in southern Scotland Wednesday and exploded in a huge fireball, killing all aboard the plane and at least 15 people in an inferno on the ground.

Bomb Threat on Asian Airlines Issued

Thursday, December 29, 1988
(UPI) - Asian airlines have been warned about a threat of a possible bombing or hijacking by a Palestinian terrorist group before Jan. 10, officials for Philippine Airlines said Friday. Philippine Airlines spokesman Rolando Estabillo said his company alerted its offices at home and abroad for a possible strike.

Claim for Lockerbie Bombing Made

Friday, December 30, 1988
(UPI) - A caller saying he represented the group that bombed Pan Am Flight 103 threatened more attacks. A man who called American news agencies in London Friday said he was from the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, the shadowy pro-Iranian group that earlier said it was responsible for bombing the 747.

Charges Filed in Pan Am Bombing

Friday, November 15, 1991
(AP) - Two Libyan intelligence agents were charged yesterday in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The bombers were Libyan government intelligence operatives. This was a Libyan government operation from start to finish. We hold the Libyan government responsible for the murder of 270 people.

United Nations Votes for Sanctions

Wednesday, April 01, 1992
(AP) - The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Libya yesterday that are aimed at forcing it to hand over six men suspected in the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 and a French airliner. The council adopted a resolution that bans all flights to and from Libya, prohibits sales of weapons and aircraft to Libya.

Isolation of Libya Begins

Thursday, April 16, 1992
(AP) - Countries barred Libyan jets from their airspace and ordered diplomats to go home, putting pressure on the Libyans to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The punitive measures were sanctions approved by the United Nations, but Libya tried to flout them by sending its jets into the sky.

Libya Accepts Plan for Lockerbie Trial

Thursday, August 27, 1998
(AP) -A decade after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Scotland, Libya issued a qualified acceptance yesterday of a US-British compromise to try two suspects in the Netherlands. The Libyan Foreign Ministry said "it announces its acceptance of the development in the positions of the governments involved."

Pan Am bombing, suspects in Dutch custody

Monday, April 05, 1999
(CNN) -- The two men accused of blowing up a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, have arrived in the Netherlands for trial before a Scottish court, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced Monday. The surrender of the two men clears the way for an end to sanctions on Libya.