Photos: Remembering Pan Am Flight 103

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December 21st marks the 25th anniversary of bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, also known as the Lockerbie bombing. The flight from London to New York was destroyed by a bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits the town of Lockerbie, shortly after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, December 1988. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

FARNBOROUGH, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 15: (FILE PHOTO) The reconstructed remains of Pan Am flight 103 lie in a warehouse on January 15, 2008 in Farnborough, England. Convicted terrorist Abdelbaset ali al-Megrahi, has been serving a life sentence for the 1988 Pan-AM flight 103 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people. Megrahi, who is terminally ill with prostate cancer has served eight years of a life sentence, and following the decision today, August 20, 2009 has been released on compassionate grounds to go home to spend his remaining days with his family in Libya. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

December 1988: Some of the destruction caused by Pan Am Flight 103 after it crashed onto the town of Lockerbie in Scotland, on 21st December 1988. The Boeing 747 'Clipper Maid of the Seas' was destroyed en route from Heathrow to JFK Airport in New York, when a bomb was detonated in its forward cargo hold. All 259 people on board were killed, as well as 11 people in the town of Lockerbie. (Photo by Bryn Colton/Getty Images)

384984 01: A Mock-Up Of The Explosives-Loaded Toshiba Cassette Recorder Which Blew Up Pan Am Flight 103 Over Lockerbie In 1988 Is On Display January 31, 2001 In Edinburgh, Scotland. Abel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, One Of Two Libyans Accused Of The Bombing Which Claimed 270 Lives, Was Found Guilty Of Murder Today And Sentenced To Serve At Least Twenty Years Imprisonment By Three Scottish Judges At A Courtroom In The Former U.S. Air Base At Camp Zeist In The Netherlands. Co-Defendant Lamen Khalifa Fhimah Was Acquitted . (Photo By Getty Images)

(FILES) A file picture taken on February 18, 1992 in Tripoli shows convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (C) being escorted by security officers. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer, is to be freed from a British jail on compassionate grounds, British media reported on August 12, 2009. Megrahi is serving life with a minimum term of 27 years over the downing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, which killed 270 people in 1988. AFP PHOTO/MANOOCHER DEGHATI/FILES (Photo credit should read MANOOCHER DEGHATI/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman waiting at John F. Kennedy International Airport for Pan Am flight 103 collapses at hearing the news of the Lockerbie bombing, New York, 21st December 1988. (Photo by Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

LOCKERBIE, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 21: Officials find a corpse among the wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 December 21, 1988 in Lockerbie, Scotland. On 21st December 1988, the Boeing 747 Clipper Maid of the Seas was destroyed en route from Heathrow to JFK airport in New York, when a bomb was detonated in its forward cargo hold. All 259 people on board on board were killed, as well as 11 people in the town of Lockerbie. (Photo by Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)

=== UK OUT === A member of the public pays her respects to the people who died in the Lockerbie Air Disaster, in the Garden of Remembrance, at Dryfesdale Cemetery in Lockerbie, Scotland, 20 December 1998, to mark the 10th Anniversary of the bombing of the airliner. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) (Photo credit should read CHRIS BACON/AFP/Getty Images)

Debris surrounds the cockpit section of 'Clipper Maid of the Seas, Pan Ams flight 103 as it lay on the ground following a midair explosion over the village of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom, on Thursday, December 22, 1988. (Photo by Bryn Colton/Getty Images)

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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits the town of Lockerbie, shortly after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, December 1988. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

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