Lockerbie


/ˈlɒkəbɪ/
noun
1.
a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK’s worst air disaster when a jumbo jet was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town

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