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Lockerbie Bombing

A bomb was planted in the luggage hold of Pan Am flight 103 and the American airliner was blown out of the sky above Scotland. Everyone on board and 11 people on the ground died.

On 21 December 1988 an American airliner was blown out of the sky above Scotland. A bomb had been planted in its luggage hold. All of the 259 people on board, as well as 11 people on the ground in the small town of Lockerbie, were killed. Hear from from Father Patrick Keegans who lived on the street where much of the wreckage landed.

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