Pan Am Flight 103
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Sep 16, 2026
Will ReitzHOST
There were 329 people died.
Will ReitzHOST
Pan Am Flight 103, that's this picture here, December 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Will ReitzHOST
270 deaths, including deaths on the ground.
Will ReitzHOST
UTA Flight 772, September 1989, over the Sahara by the Libyans.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
Yeah, the embassies in Tanzania and-
John PodhoretzHOST
We had Flight 103.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
Yeah, Flight 103.
John PodhoretzHOST
You had Flight 103, the takedown of Flight 103.
Abe GreenwaldHOST
USS Cole.
John PodhoretzHOST
You had, uh, Leon Kling- the USS Cole.
John PodhoretzHOST
There were plenty of moments at which the United States could have said, "Thus far, but no farther.
John PodhoretzHOST
You do this and we're blowing up a city of yours.
Michael McLarenHOST
Is that right or not? Airlines had been hijacked in the past.
Michael McLarenHOST
I mean, you think about Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, that was in 1988.
Michael McLarenHOST
You had the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Michael McLarenHOST
They simultaneously hijacked, I think it was four commercial flights for Europe and New York in September of 1970.
TomHOST
It kind of happened just because it did.
TomHOST
But if you're in a jet that has 400 passengers and you've got 15 crew Say you're in Pan Am Flight 103 and the bomb threat comes in over the radio and you've got to coordinate with where, how to handle that, you know.
TomHOST
And
MikeHOST
the flight attendants do that a lot.
Alyssa A RheingoldGUEST
we also had done some work, research work and evaluation with 9-11.
Alyssa A RheingoldGUEST
And we also had done some work with the Office for Victims of Crime with the Pan Am Lockerbie bombings.
Alyssa A RheingoldGUEST
That occurred a number of decades ago.
Alyssa A RheingoldGUEST
And in 2017, the Office for Victims of Crime, Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime, decided to create a national resource for those that are impacted by mass violence.
Ian CossHOST
Airline security at the time was mainly concerned about people attempting to blow up an airplane.
Ian CossHOST
Think Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded over Scotland in 1988, or United Airlines Flight 629, which exploded over Colorado in 1955.
Ian CossHOST
And so security procedures 25 years ago were mainly looking for bombs.
Ian CossHOST
It didn't occur to the airlines or the federal officials that the plane itself could
Jessica TrantGUEST
You know, I mean, I feel like it's...
Jessica TrantGUEST
You remember the Lockerbie Pan Am thing?
Elizabeth MillerGUEST
Of course, I remember.
Jessica TrantGUEST
It's very, very similar to that, you know, where it's far removed from where it happened, and we have to travel all the way, and it's just...
Bobby CapucciHOST
The visitor log showed that Epstein's destination was the West Wing, and he arrived at 1216 p.m.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The morning Clinton attended a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery for the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 and returned to the White House by 1115 p.m.
Bobby CapucciHOST
He would remain in the Oval Office until 2 p.m. for lunch, phone and office time, leaving a large window in which he could have met Epstein.
Bobby CapucciHOST
And obviously that's exactly what happened, right? Epstein wasn't going there for his health.
Will ReitzHOST
Furthermore, Libya was a state sponsor of terrorism.
Will ReitzHOST
Now, we're going to talk about terrorism later in another class, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time on these, but Libya supported the Lockerbie bombing.
Will ReitzHOST
which was Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people, plus another 11 on the ground.
Will ReitzHOST
The LaBelle discotheque bombing, 1986, which was a popular nightclub in Berlin, which killed two U.S. soldiers and one bystander.
Randy SharmanHOST
But this one has some unique kind of things that we kind of just sort of take for granted now because it happened almost 40 years ago.
Onanta ForbesPANELIST
Yeah, isn't that amazing? So just to recap, on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was flying from London to New York when a bomb exploded on board the Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Onanta ForbesPANELIST
So all people on board, 259, were killed, along with 11 people on the ground.
Onanta ForbesPANELIST
So a total of 270 victims.
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