Lockerbie bombing wreckage moved to US for trial of Abu Agila Masud

Laura Buchan leads the team of prosecutors working on the case at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.

“The transfer of physical items of evidence from Scotland into US custody is beginning,” she said.

“The transfer includes parts of the fuselage of Pan Am 103 which are a production in the criminal investigation.

“We understand that the fuselage will hold significance for many of the families of those who lost their lives and they have been informed of the transfer plans.”

In 2001, three Scottish judges ruled that Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbasset Al-Megrahi had played a key role in the bombing and convicted him of the murder of 270 people.

Megrahi was jailed for life but freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government while terminally ill with cancer in 2009.

He had always protested his innocence and died in Libya three years later.