Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah, one of two Libyan intelligence officers accused of orchestrating the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died at age 70. The news of his passing was shared via a social media post by Libyan Airlines, the company where Fhimah was previously employed, which also extended condolences to his surviving family members.

Fhimah and his co-defendant, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, were tried at a special Scottish court held in the Netherlands. In 2001, the court acquitted Fhimah of all charges, citing insufficient evidence to prove his direct involvement in the attack that killed 270 people. Conversely, al-Megrahi was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, though he was later released on compassionate grounds in 2009 due to a terminal cancer diagnosis. He died in 2012.

While Fhimah was cleared of legal wrongdoing in the Scottish trial, he remained a figure of significant international controversy. The Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack to have occurred on British soil. The legal proceedings surrounding the case spanned decades, involving complex international negotiations and investigations into Libyan state involvement under the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi. Fhimah’s death marks the end of the life of one of the few individuals formally processed through the judicial system regarding the tragedy, leaving the full scope of the conspiracy a subject of ongoing historical and legal debate.