Libyan taken into US custody accused of building the bomb that destroyed a Boeing 747 flying.

UL ELLISAFP via Images Memorial stones in memory of victims of Pan-Am flight are pictured in a garden of remembrance near the village of Lockerbie in southwest Scotland on November , . UL ELLISAFP via Images A Libyan accused of building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight in has been taken into US custody.

• A Libyan man accused of building the bomb that exploded aboard the Pan Am flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in has been taken into US custody, the Scottish authorities have said. In a statement to Insider, the Scottish Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service confirmed that The families of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing have been told that the suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Mas ud Kheir Al-Marimi Mas ud or Masoud is in US custody. The US announced charges against Mas ud in . All passengers and crew on board the flight, including Americans, were killed when Pan Am Flight was destroyed mid-flight. Eleven people in the Scottish town of Lockerbie also died when the Boeing plane crashed on December , . The plane was flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detroit via London and New York, with the bomb exploding shortly after the plane took off from London s Heathrow Airport. The BBC reports that Mas ud was kidnapped by a militia group in Libya, leading to speculation that he could be handed to US authorities to stand trial for his alleged crimes. Documentary maker Ken Dornstein — whose brother died in the bombing — told the New York Times, If there s one person still alive who could tell the story of the bombing of Flight , and put to rest decades of unanswered question about how exactly it was carried out — and why — it s Mas ud. The only person convicted of the Pan Am bombing is Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines. He stood trial at a specially-convened Scottish court in the Netherlands in and was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of counts of murder. Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government in after being diagnosed with cancer. In , Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims but denied that he had ordered the attack.