Man In U.S. Custody For Flight Explosion In 1988

On December 21st in 1988, the Pan Am Flight 103 exploded traveling from London to New York.

A Libyan man is now in U.S. custody for his alleged involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

On December 21st in 1988, the flight exploded while it was 31 thousand feet over Lockerbie, Scotland.

There were 259 people on board the flight that took off from London for New York. All people aboard the flight died as well as 11 people on the ground.

U.S. and British investigators discovered fragments of a circuit board and a timer and revealed that it was not a mechanical failure, but a bomb that caused the explosion.

Two years ago, the U.S. charged, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, in connection to the incident and accused him of placing explosives in a portable cassette radio player that was inside a suitcase on the plane.

Al-Marimi has now been taken into U.S. custody and is expected to make his first appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

A specific court date has not been publicly announced.

The bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack to take place in the United Kingdom.