Pan Am 103 is the search shorthand for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Google Search interest for the keyword pan am 103 reached 37 for the week of August 1 2026, a new series peak after reading 2 on July 25. Trends MCP get_growth returns +1750.0% over 7 days and +1750.0% over 30 days (both 2 → 37). On the Wikipedia Trending board as of August 6 2026 06:01 UTC, Pan Am Flight 103 ranked 13. The spike lines up with Netflix availability of The Bombing of Pan Am 103 and pretrial coverage ahead of jury selection on August 25 2026. Data pulled August 6 2026 from source google search.
Pan am 103 search interest right now
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value (week of August 1 2026) | 37 |
| 30-day change | +1750.0% (2 on July 4 2026 → 37) |
| 90-day change | not enough history (baseline week May 2 2026 = 0) |
| Peak value | 37 on August 1 2026 |
| Prior local high | 10 on May 31 2025 |
| First seen in series | August 7 2021 |
| 7-day growth (get_growth) | +1750.0% (2 → 37) |
| 30-day growth (get_growth) | +1750.0% (2 → 37) |
| Nonzero weeks in series | 48 of 261 |
| Wikipedia Trending rank (August 6 2026) | 13 |
| Lockerbie 30-day growth (get_growth) | +560.0% (5 → 33) |
| Fauci 30-day growth (get_growth) | +4900.0% (2 → 100) |
Figures come from Trends MCP get_time_series, get_growth, and same-day get_top_trends for Google Trends and Wikipedia Trending, pulled August 6 2026. Source for the stored chart is google search. The 90-day percent change is stored as null because the closest point near 90 days before the latest week is 0.
About pan am 103
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21 1988, killing all 259 aboard and 11 residents on the ground. Of the victims, 190 were U.S. citizens. The National reported on August 2 and August 3 2026 that public attention returned as Netflix carried The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part drama that first aired on the BBC in 2025, while U.S. prosecutors prepare for the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, who is accused of building the bomb. Jury selection is scheduled to begin August 25 2026 in Washington, D.C. Coverage in July 2026 also focused on pretrial fights over baggage-policy evidence and the disputed 2012 confession. People search the keyword for the Netflix series, the true crime timeline, and updates on the Masud case rather than for airline nostalgia.
What the time series shows
Pan Am 103 search interest is mostly quiet, with short news spikes. The 261-week Google Search series opens August 7 2021 at 0 and stays at or near 0 for long stretches. A December 17 2022 week reaches 4. Early 2025 brings a longer lift: January 4 and January 11 2025 sit at 3, then May 24 2025 jumps to 9 and May 31 2025 hits the prior high of 10 before cooling through summer. July 2026 weeks read 2, 1, 1, and 2. August 1 2026 jumps to 37, the current peak. Derived labels from the series: growth exploding, speed exponential, seasonality low, volatility high. Growth is exploding because 30-day change is +1750.0%. Speed is exponential because the latest 30-day absolute move (2 → 37, abs 35) is more than 2x the prior 30-day move (0 → 2, abs 2). Seasonality is low: event-driven spikes, not a yearly retail cycle. Volatility is high on week-over-week percent changes (series stdev about 286%).
Related topics
Same-day Google Search neighbors with measured 30-day growth where available (Trends MCP get_growth, August 6 2026):
- lockerbie: +560.0% over 30 days (5 → 33)
- fauci: +4900.0% over 30 days (2 → 100); see the Fauci topic
- cold case: present on the August 6 2026 Google Trends board at rank 49; growth omitted because no clean get_growth figure was stored for this pull
- idaho murders: related true-crime board neighbor with an existing topic page at Idaho murders; 30-day get_growth returned a zero-baseline sentinel, so growth_pct is omitted from the data JSON
For search tooling, use Google Trends. Page-view context for the same story sits on the Wikipedia trending API page.