Living Memorial

To convey the enormity of loss, this memorial gallery puts faces and stories to honor each of the 270 innocent victims murdered in the bombing of Pan American flight 103 on December 21, 1988.

This terrorist attack killed 243 passengers and 16 flight crew in the air and 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground, representing a true cross section of humanity. Their ages ranged from 2 months to 82 years. The victims came from 21 nations, including 190 U.S. citizens and 43 U.K. citizens, spanning the spectrum of ethnicities, socioeconomic sectors, and faith traditions.

The bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack in U.K. history and was the deadliest against the U.S. until the attacks of
September 11, 2001.