Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestylePan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie (PA)Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, a Libyan man acquitted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has died, his former employer Libyan Airlines announced. Fhimah was cleared of involvement in the Pan Am Flight 103 explosion, which killed 270 people, following a trial in the Hague in 2001. His co-accused, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, remains the only person convicted over the attack, having died in Libya in 2012 after his compassionate release from prison. Fhimah previously served as a station manager for Libyan Airlines in Malta, leaving the post shortly before the bombing took place. Jury selection in the US trial of Abu Agila Masud, who is accused of building the bomb, was recently postponed ahead of a hearing in Washington. In fullMan cleared over Lockerbie bombing dies – reportsMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

The ex-intelligence official is charged with making the bomb that downed the plane over Scotland, killing 270 people, most of them Americans.

A federal judge has postponed a trial in the U.S. for a Libyan man charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, citing the discovery of new evidence.