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In retaliation for shooting down an Iranian civilian jetliner into the Persian Gulf, Pan Am Flight 109 was bombed over Scotland.
What is Pan Am Flight 109?
- Pan Am Flight 109 was bombed over Scotland in retaliation for shooting down an Iranian civilian jetliner into the Persian Gulf.
- Pan Am Flight 103 was a regular Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit, with stops in London and New York City.
- Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747-121 registered N739PA, flew the transatlantic leg of the route.
- On 21 December 1988, shortly after 19:00, while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, the plane was destroyed by a bomb planted on board, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing.
- Large sections of the plane crashed in a Lockerbie residential street, killing 11 people.
- With a total of 270 fatalities, it is the deadliest terrorist attack in British history.
Therefore, in retaliation for shooting down an Iranian civilian jetliner into the Persian Gulf, Pan Am Flight 109 was bombed over Scotland.
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