Peter Dix
Irish sailor (1953–1988)
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Peter Thomas Stanley Dix (6 May 1953 – 21 December 1988) was an Irish Olympic sailor who competed in the 470 in 1976.[1]
Dix was born in Dublin and was an alumnus of St Columba's College, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.[1] His cousin was Olympic sailor Robert Dix, with whom he competed.[1]
A member of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, he was killed en route to New York City to work as a management consultant when a bomb exploded in the cargo hold of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.[1] Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
