In the 23 years ago, Pan Am Airlines flight 103 exploded and crashed in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew and11 Lockerbie residents, the incident aircraft carrier United States was an act of Libyan intelligence.

According to the pages of The History Channel television station, a terrorist bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player. The device was placed inside a bag that is stored in the cargo plane and the plane exploded while taking off at an altitude of 31,000 feet. The plane flight routes from London to New York. The bomb was placed at a plane layover in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1991, the results of the combined UK and U.S investigation claimed that Libyan intelligence agents, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahiand Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was responsible for the Pan Am incident.

Party investigators suspect that the bombing was a backlash from the regime of Muammar Khadafi in Libya for U.S air strikes in 1986, which killed a daughter of Khadafi and dozens of others.

However, Libya when it had refused to hand over suspects to the U.S law enforcement agencies. In 1999, after sentenced to a number of UN sanctions, Khadafi willing to hand over two suspects to Scottish authorities for trial in the Netherlands, but using Scottish legal procedures. In early 2001, al-Megrahi was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, while Fhimah acquitted. In 2003, Libya was willing to take responsibility for the incident with the Pan Am willing to pay compensation to the families of the victims of USD $8 million. The airline Pan Am, which went bankrupt three years after the incidents in Scotland, sued the Libyan government.

The lawsuit was not in vain because the manager of Pan Am received compensation of USD $30 million.