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  1. Pan Am Flight 103: How a Tiny Fragment Traced the Lockerbie Bomb

    Event: 1988Published: 24 Oct 2026

    A bomb hidden in a cassette player destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.

    View event: Pan Am Flight 103 (1988)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  2. Olympic Airways Flight 411: How a 747 Skimmed Athens Rooftops

    Event: 1978Published: 23 Sep 2026

    An engine failed as a fully loaded Olympic Airways 747 left Athens for New York in August 1978, and the flight engineer then switched off the water injection that boosted the other three engines.

    View event: Olympic Airways Flight 411 (1978)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Athens
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  3. Pan Am Flight 103: How Investigators Proved a Bomb Over Lockerbie

    Event: 1988Published: 26 Oct 2021

    This Mayday episode follows British air accident investigators and the FBI after Pan Am Flight 103 broke apart over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 270 people.

    View event: Pan Am Flight 103 (1988)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Phase of flight
    Cruise