A Delaware County man, Robert Eugene McCollum, was one of 10 passengers from Pennsylvania who died in the Dec. 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, writes Deb Kiner for Penn Live.

McCollum, 61, of Wayne, was an associate professor of early childhood and elementary education at Temple University.

Dr. McCollum had served as director of the College of Education’s two staff development programs in Nigeria, Africa. At the time of his death, he was returning from discussions with UNESCO officials in Paris about the next Temple University/Nigerian project.

His obituary described him as a “kind, committed teacher who worked tirelessly for understanding among people.”

A suspect in the bombing, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was arrested and in U.S. custody Dec. 11, 2022. He was charged with an international act of terrorism, accused of making the bomb that took down the plane.

The flight had been flying from Frankfurt to Detroit with stopovers in New York and Detroit when the bomb exploded over Lockerbie.  The passengers included 25 students from Syracuse University.

All 243 passengers, 16 flight crew, and 11 people on the ground were killed in the crash.

Read more about Robert Eugene McCollum and the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing at Penn Live.

Here is BBC archival footage showing news coverage of the Lockerbie bombing.