Pan-Am Flight-103 Crashes

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Pan-Am Flight 103 Crashes in Scotland On December 21, Pan American Flight 103 crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland. The flight was headed from London to New York and then to Detroit. The aircraft had been in the air for about an hour before it crashed. Before it landed in the town,a signal of the plane had been lost. There were about 240 passengers that had died in the terrifying plane crash. 189 of those passengers were American. Eleven citizens of Lockerbie were also killed. At first, no one had a clue about what had caused the crash, but later found that it must have been a suitcase bomb on the plane. This was figured out because the debris was spread out like it would be from an explosion. There were also other hints that signaled