On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270 men, women, and children. At the time it is the worst act of airline terrorism against the United States. And for more than a decade, it is called the world’s biggest unsolved murder.
From a crime scene that spans 845 square miles, to the high-tech forensic laboratories, to the long-awaited trial in the Netherlands twelve years later, the story of Pan Am 103 takes the viewer step-by-step through one of the largest and most complex and controversial criminal investigations in modern history.