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Netflix's new drama The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part series starring Connor Swindells, Patrick J. Adams, Peter Mullan, and Merrit Wever, is driving renewed interest in the 1988 attack that killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Pan Am Flight 103, a 1988 terrorist bombing, is trending due to Netflix's new drama series The Bombing of Pan Am 103.
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