Departures of note

Lamin Khalifah Fhimah was a Libyan citizen who served as station manager for Libyan Arab Airlines at Luqa Airport in Malta. In 1991, Scotland and the United States brought charges against him and his co-accused Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. After years of international sanctions against Libya, the two men were handed over for trial before a Scottish court convened in the Netherlands.

In January 2001, a panel of three Scottish judges unanimously acquitted Fhimah of 270 counts of murder, finding that his alibi placed him in Sweden at the time of the bombing. His co-accused Megrahi was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Fhimah always denied any involvement in the attack and returned to Libya, where he was received by leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Decades later, Fhimah's name resurfaced in the investigation when US authorities pursued new proceedings against another Libyan, Abu Agila Masud, and Scottish and American prosecutors reportedly considered whether new evidence could justify retrying Fhimah under Scots law. He died in August 2026 at the age of 70.