Eight(8) Notable Historical Plane Crashes: The Cause, The Place and The Time

 Lockerbie Bombing (1988): Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747, was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. (3) Lockerbie Bombing (1988): Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747, was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regular Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747 registered N739PA. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, while the aircraft was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destroyed by a bomb that had been planted on board, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing.

 Air France Flight 4590 (2000): A Concorde supersonic aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris, resulting in 113 fatalities. The crash was caused by a metal strip on the runway that punctured one of the Concorde’s tires, leading to a fuel tank rupture and fire. Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight operated by Air France which was scheduled to fly from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

On 25 July 2000, it crashed into a hotel in Gonesse, France. All one hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one critically injured. The flight was chartered by German company Peter Deilmann Cruises; the passengers were on their way to board the cruise ship MS Deutschland in New York City for a 16-day cruise to Manta, Ecuador. This was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27-year operational history. 113 people lost their lives when this accident occurred.