Netflix’s ‘The Bombing of Pan Am 103’ Revisits Britain’s Deadly Lockerbie Attack. Here’s the True Story.
The six-part series follows the town’s response and a multinational investigation after the attack killed 270 people, including 179 Americans, Netflix said.
- Netflix released the six-part drama The Bombing of Pan Am 103 on Thursday, July 30, offering a fictionalized retelling of the 1988 terrorist attack that destroyed a Boeing 747 over Scotland.
- On December 21, 1988, a bomb detonated aboard the flight en route to New York City, killing all 259 passengers and crew plus 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. The wreckage covered 845 square miles, marking the United Kingdom's deadliest terrorist attack.
- Directed by Michael Keillor, the show stars Connor Swindells as Ed McCusker, Patrick J. Adams as FBI Special Agent Dick Marquise, and Merritt Wever as Kathryn Turman. The narrative examines investigations conducted by British and American authorities.
- Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of 270 counts of murder and received a life sentence. He died in 2012, though the investigation into this 1988 tragedy remains active.
- Facing trial in Washington beginning August 24, 2026, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi is challenging the admissibility of his alleged confession made at a Libyan detention facility in 2012.
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"The Bombing Of Pan Am 103" with "Sex Education" star Connor Swindells tells of the investigative work after the 1988 attack.
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