In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack.Some relatives of the dead, including the Lockerbie campaigner Dr Jim Swire, believe the bomb was planted at After the bombing, the flight number was changed, in accordance with standard practice among airlines after disasters. For the hijacking in Karachi, see Aviation accidents and incidents in the United KingdomTranscript of the trial of the Scottish court at Camp Zeist 2000, page 59Attali, Jacques (1995), Verbatim, Volume 3, Paris, FayardKatz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002.Transcript of the proceedings of the Scottish court in the Netherlands 2001, day 86The Guardian, 12 November 1994, page 6, "Cover-up claim as Lockerbie film screening is cancelled". However, he is still alive late in 2011 and, with the collapse of What are your thoughts on releasing convicted terrorists from prison on compassionate grounds, like when terminal illness makes death appear to be imminent? He argued that the verdict was not one that a reasonable jury in an ordinary trial could have reached if it were given proper directions by the judge. The The explosion punched a 50-cm (20-inch) hole on the left side of the The fuselage continued moving forward and down until it reached 19,000 ft (5,800 m), at which point its dive became nearly vertical.All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed, as were 11 residents of Lockerbie on the ground. Mr. Megrahi has never admitted his guilt, and he was engaged in an appeal in 2009 when doctors in Scotland diagnosed a terminal case of prostate cancer. After a hospital stay, al-Megrahi resided in Tripoli until his death on May 20, 2012.A woman reads the names of those who were killed in the Lockerbie air disaster on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy, at the memorial wall in Dryfesdale cemetery on December 21, 2013 in Lockerbie, Scotland. * 8pm est or whatI had been scheduled for the flight immediately before 103 on that day and changed my scheduled day & time because of an article in the Sunday London times just days before.

The flight was on route from London to New York with 259 passengers on board. I hope that the contents of this letter underline some of the reasons as to why I cannot possibly accept that any inquiry should be limited to Scotland, and I apologise if my previous personal letter of 24 August misled you over the main focus that the inquiry will need to address.

One of the British relatives, Martin Cadman, alleges that a member of President Bush's staff told him: "Your government and ours know exactly what happened but they are never going to tell. Before submitting their report, the PCAST members met a group of British PA103 relatives at the US embassy in London on 12 February 1990. It is, as we have said, clear that, with one exception the clothing in the primary suitcase was the clothing purchased in Mr Gauci's shop on 7 December 1988. Other requirements included a formal denunciation of terrorism—which Libya said it had already made—and "accepting responsibility for the actions of its officials".On 15 August 2003, Libya's UN ambassador, Ahmed Own, submitted a letter to the UN A civil action against Libya continued until 18 February 2005 on behalf of Pan Am and its insurers, which went bankrupt partly as a result of the attack.

"Al Jalil's commentary to the Expressen came during widespread political unrest and protests in Libya calling for the removal of Ghaddafi from power. The purchaser was, on Mr Gauci's evidence, a Libyan.The defence team had 14 days in which to appeal against Megrahi's conviction, and an additional six weeks to submit the full grounds of the appeal.

"Another top legal firm in the US, Speiser Krause, which represented 60 relatives, of whom half were UK families, concluded contingency deals securing them fees of between 28 and 35% of individual settlements.