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Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, via London and New York. On Wednesday 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground. Following a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyan nationals in November 1991. In 1999, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi handed over the two men for trial at Camp Zeist, Netherlands after protracted negotiations and UN sanctions. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in May 2012, remaining the only person to be convicted for the attack. He had continually protested his innocence. In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack.〔 During the Libyan Civil War, in 2011, a former government official claimed that the Libyan leader had personally ordered the bombing. ==Aircraft== The aircraft operating Pan Am Flight 103 was a Boeing 747-121, registered and named ''Clipper Maid of the Seas'',〔 formerly named ''Clipper Morning Light'' prior to 1979.〔(N739PA in April 1978 )〕 It was the 15th 747 built and was delivered in February 1970, one month after the first 747 entered service with Pan Am.〔 At the time of its destruction, ''Clipper Maid of the Seas'' was 18 years of age and had accumulated over 75,000 flying hours. In 1987, it underwent a complete overhaul as it belonged to the civil reserve fleet of aircraft and this aircraft was retrofitted so that, in a national emergency, it could be turned into a freight aircraft within two days' work, according to the ''Los Angeles Times''. ''Clipper Maid of the Seas maintenance records reveal a history of metal fatigue, rust, and a fire on board. There were 24 noteworthy records listed in the files as occurring between 1980 and 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pan Am Flight 103」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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