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On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. This episode of Compact Disasters follows the flight from Heathrow, the explosion over southern Scotland, the devastation in Lockerbie, the forensic investigation, the Libyan trial at Camp Zeist, and the long legal aftermath that still continues decades later.
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