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How many people died on Pan Am flight 103?

The explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, killed 270 people. All 259 people on board the aircraft died—243 passengers and 16 crew members—and 11 people on the ground were killed. Although the passengers on the plane came from 21 countries, the majority of them were from the United States—190 Americans, including 35 students from Syracuse University.