P.M. BRIEFING : Pan Am Settles With Lockerbie Families in Flight 103 Case
Pan Am has reached an out-of-court settlement with 250 Scottish families whose relatives were killed or injured in the bombing of Flight 103, a Miami lawyer said today.
Both sides agreed to keep details of the settlement secret but Aaron Podhurst, an attorney handling the claims, said he was “satisfied with the outcome.”
The settlement involves only casualties and property damage on the ground in the Scottish village of Lockerbie when a bomb destroyed the plane in December, 1988. Still pending are the cases arising from the deaths of 259 passengers and crew, Podhurst said.
Eleven people died in the village and scores were hurt in the pre-Christmas disaster. The jetliner’s fiery debris also destroyed villagers’ property.
Podhurst said the cases were filed in Florida because two Pan Am subsidiaries based in the state were responsible for the airliner’s flight security.
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