The nose section of the doomed 747 after the terrorist attack
The US State Department has said that it wants the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, to serve his sentence in Scotland.
The Acting Assistant Secretary of State – Kurt Volker – said he hoped the original deal would be followed through.
The UK and Libya recently reached an agreement on prisoner transfers, but there has been a promised veto on any bid by al-Megrahi to return to Libya. He is currently serving life for the murder of 270 people, who died after Pan Am flight PA103 was blown up over Lockerbie in December 1988. Of those who died, eleven were Lockerbie residents and 259 people were on the aircraft.
The aircraft involved – Maid of the Seas – was one of the oldest Boeing 747s in service at the time. It had entered service in 1970 – the year which saw the first passenger flights by the Boeing 747.
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