Section of Lockerbie Boeing 747 heads to US

A section of the Pan Am Boeing 747-121 which crashed on the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, is to be transferred to the United States. Parts of the 747’s fuselage are to be used in the trial of Abu Aguila Mas’ud, scheduled to take place next May. The Libyan is suspected of having aided Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in preparing the explosive device that detonated in the widebody’s cargo hold, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on