Lockerbie
Speech parts
1. Lockerbie - Noun
2. Lockerbie - Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
Lockerbie (plural Lockerbies)
A terrorist bomb attack on an aeroplane.
Examples
A group of US senators attempts to investigate rumors that the Lockerbie bomber was released as part of a deal to allow BP to drill off the coast of Libya.
He added: ‘To the families of those who died in the sky above Lockerbie all those years ago, I know that the small step we take today cannot compensate for the sorrow you feel to this day.
Barr’s comments came on the 32nd anniversary of the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
GLASGOW, United Kingdom — Five senior judges on Thursday began deliberating their ruling in a posthumous appeal against the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Mohmet Al-Megrahi.
In May 2014 a group of relatives of the Lockerbie victims continued to campaign for al-Megrahi's name to be cleared by reopening the case. citation International response Immediate The attack was condemned by many countries.
New Lockerbie bombing charges expected, 32 years after Pan Am attack that killed 270U.