By Lucy Crossley PUBLISHED: 00:11 EST, 23 December 2013 | UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 23 December 2013 Overgrown and long-forgotten, this pile of twisted metal is the wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 - hidden away in a scrapyard some 25 years after the tragic Lockerbie bombing. Shrouded from view behind high fences and surrounding trees, the aircraft's distinctive blue and white livery is clearly visible in these aerial photographs. The remains of the bombed jet were taken to the scrapyard in rural Lincolnshire shortly after the disaster on December 21, 1988, and have lain there ever since.
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Wreckage from doomed plane being stored near Tattershall, Lincolnshire
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Remains can not be moved until investigations into blast complete
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