CBS News Clip: Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie (December 21, 1988)

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[@maryhlad7501]

I’ve never forgotten that horrific crash. I was at my neighbor’s house when we first heard the horrible news on WSTM Channel 3 here in Syracuse, New York and we saw a list of the names of the Syracuse University students aboard the plane. When I returned to the apartment I shared with my mother-I started crying.

[@roywhitworth]

This is one of my first memories, seeing the cockpit on its side. I was 4

[@aston-martin-internationalist]

I remember this all too well. I was given a Pan Am electric 747 toy as a young boy with a flashing light on it the previous Christmas and have always been captivated by the brand. I visited Lockerbie last year and to the memorial which I found very moving. I also visited the other sites in Lockerbie where plane debris was found and the road where the row of houses was destroyed.

[@stratman2348]

I was 12 when this happened , I remember it was the winter solstice that day and I was looking forward to days starting to get longer again, but when I saw the news about the Pan Am plane, I was in shock of seeing something like that.

[@freddyhoyt1849]

I was a flight attendant that year in 1988 when flight 103 went down I lost many coworkers I was supposed to be on the flight ✈️ but my schedule changed last minute

[@scottmckellar1157]

Those poor people 😢

[@ericsamuelson5656]

I turned 6 years old that month and I still remember when it happened

[@MattDaugherty-jd7my]

I was 4 years old when that happened it was a sad day

[@stuartlee6622]

All Pan American had to do was to follow rules and match checked luggage to onboard passengers--and then this crash wouldn't have happened!

[@Flubbydubbydoodoo]

The graphics.😀 Like how they use “petrol” rather than “gas” in the graphic.

[@michaelcivitella9119]

Pan Am failed to perform passenger baggage reconciliation which became mandatory in 1985. The airline was found guilty (and deservedly so) of willful misconduct by a Scottish court and this tragedy was the final nail in the coffin that led to it's demise in 1991. Quite frankly, given their carelessness in this matter, they have nobody to blame but THEMSELVES!

[@Stenbrotsgatan]

My father knew one of the stewardess on board.

[@KingEric-nr8gv]

2:32

[@Jerram89]

They have to be some of the most ridiculous and also inappropriate graphics I’ve ever seen.