Pan Am Flight 103 taxied out of the gate at Heathrow Airport in London at 6:04 p.m. on December 21, 1988 - four days before Christmas. The 243 passengers and 16 crew members were preparing themselves for a relatively long flight to New York. Flight 103, took off at 6:25 p.m. They had no idea that they only had 38 more minutes to live.

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