More than 30 years have passed since the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 claimed the lives of 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students coming home from a semester abroad.

• Watch the documentary The Legacy of Flight 103 on Spectrum News, premiering Tuesday at 8 p.m.

The tragedy over Lockerbie, Scotland remains a memory etched in the fabric of SU, and forever in the minds of so many across Central New York.

In honor of those victims, Spectrum News sat down 30 years later with the men and women who continue each day to carry on the legacy left by those who died on December 21, 1988.

There’s the story of Lawrence Mason, a, SU professor and a photographer for United Press International at the time, who initially chronicled the tragedy.  But in the three decades since, he has visited Lockerbie more than a dozen times to document the healing in that small town.

Then there is Katie Berrell, who never met her uncle Steve, one of the 270 victims, but she carries his legacy forward as one of this year’s Syracuse University Remembrance Scholars.  “They say it’s for a year,” she says, “but honestly you are a remembrance scholar for the rest of your life. You are representing that victim, the 35, all 270 who were lost. That becomes a part of who you are.”

And the investigation – yes, three decades later, the case is still far from closed. Sen. Charles Schumer says there is much work left to bring to justice all those responsible for the terrorist attack.

The Legacy of Flight 103, a special one-hour documentary, premieres at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, exclusively on Spectrum News. The documentary will re-air at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 9; and at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, and Sunday, May 12.