Lockerbie

/ˈlɒkəbi/

/ˈlɑːkərbi/

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a town in southern Scotland. It became famous in 1988 when a US plane (Pan Am Flight 103) exploded above it, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. Authorities in Britain and the US believed the explosion was caused by a bomb placed on the plane by two Libyan men. In January 2001, at the end of their trial, the court decided that one man was guilty and one was not guilty.洛克比：苏格兰南部的一个小镇。1988年，一架美国飞机（泛美航空103航班）在其上方爆炸，飞机因此丧生，机上所有259人和地面11人丧生。英美当局认为，爆炸是由两名利比亚男子在飞机上放置炸弹引起的。在2001年1月的审判结束时，法院裁定一名男子有罪，另一名男子无罪。