What to Watch: Netflix’s Bombing of Flight 103 revisits Lockerbie terror
They suspected Iran had commissioned the bombing as revenge for the accidental downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Navy ship Vincennes in July 1988, which killed all 290 people on board.
It’s been almost four decades since Pan Am Flight 103 from London Heathrow to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board.
Picture source FBI The official explanation for the Lockerbie bombing is that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered the attack in retaliation for a series of military confrontations with the United States.
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