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- Warning: this film reports on the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing and contains footage from the scene of the impact which viewers may find upsetting
The story of the Lockerbie bombing told through five powerful voices three decades later. STV’s John MacKay talks to Canon Patrick Keegans, then the local parish priest who knew each of the 11 victims on the ground; Colin Dorrance, the police officer who found himself at the heart of an unfolding tragedy just weeks into the job and David Stewart, who recovered the bodies of victims from his family’s farm. Broadcaster Kaye Adams, then a young journalist for STV, recalls the horrors she witnessed reporting live from the town and Victoria Cummock, then a 35-year-old mother of three from Florida, tells the heart-breaking story of how her husband John died on Pan Am 103 after changing his flight to return home to his family earlier than planned.
Thirty years later, their memories of December 21, 1988 have not diminished.
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As a normal American with no link to the Lockerbie story .. I would like to say thank you to the people of Lockerbie. Your example of love, caring and concern for people in this horrible situation (especially considering the fact that you lost many of your family members and friends) is an exceptional example of the best things our world was/is/and will continue to be. Your example of compassion for the past 30 years has inspired people from different backgrounds to come together. Thank you for everything that you have done for people from our country.
AMEN...THE PEOPLE OF LOCKERBIE
ARE THE BEST OF HUMANITY
Id like to think we are all like that in Scotland ..well we try to be
I am English... and had / have no connection to Lockerbie, or to the plane and it's passengers and crew, so I can only thank you for your kind words and repeat them.
My own first child was born in early February 1988, and my emotions were still raw as I struggled with Post-natal depression, but following this dreadful news of the Lockerbie tragedy, anything I felt was securely put into true perspective, as it was beyond anything
I had ever heard of, certainly nothing I had, or have ever experienced. It was, (still is, despite other horrific events since then) beyond all imagining...
Rest In Peace Lockerbie Souls.
My continuing thoughts to families, friends, connections of the victims.
May they somehow, someday find peace.
The lockerbie air disaster was caused by cowardly terrorists they killed 270 people needlessly. The emergency workers had to sift through the wreckage and recover the bodys from the crash site.
@@brigidsingleton1596 What kindness you displayed in your comment. My daughter was born on December 21st. It had become an important date as it brought Lockerbie memories.
That night my doctor came to check on me, after a very difficult birth. He said "Do you know that today is the anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster?". Of course I remember most years, but it felt good to just say a prayer all those families and friends.
To find bodies in your garden, yard or in your farm fields...I just can't imagine it. How awful 😥😪
Yes, I remember this well. As an American, the respect, love, honor and care the Scottish and the ordinary residents of Lockerbie did show was unbelievable. People were praying and covering up the dead lying in their backyard's with blankets off of their own beds, as many homes around them were burning. It was beauty and compassion in the face of unspeakable tragedy. x
I was 12 when this happened. I always was intrigued by this disaster. What many people don't know is that the remaining wreckage of the plane still lies in a scrapyard in rural England. This plane was the 15th 747 ever built by Boeing and was built in 1970. She was named "Clipper Morning Light" until 1980, when her name was changed to "Clipper Maid of the Seas". She must have carried hundreds of thousands of passengers all over the world. Now, over 30 years after the bombing, all of the wreckage, except for the reconstructed part of the fuselage where the bomb detonated, and the wing section which was vaporized in a fireball, lies forgotten in a scrapyard behind blinded fencing amongst trees and weeds. What an eerie feeling it must be if you could see it in person..
Part of the fuselage was reconstructed for the investigation, and I believe is still preserved in an aircraft hangar somewhere in England.
I think it should be returned to the US, to be housed in a memorial Chapel built for that purpose.
At least it would give the families somewhere physical to visit.
SAD.
Denice O'Neill, age 21, was on Pan Am Flight 103. She lived across the hall from me at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and used to come over and watch TV in the evenings with me and my roommates. She was a pre-med student and was returning to the U.S. after working for two and a half months at a hospital in Nigeria. She was in seat 38K.
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It's respectful to remember, I'm sorry you lost a young freind sxx bravo juliett
I remember this like yesterday. I was 21, living in NYC, 2 months pregnant and getting married on Christmas Eve 1988. On the night of the crash, Dec. 21st, my fiance was at JFK picking up my family that had flown in for my wedding. The airport in NY was utter chaos. The loved ones waiting for flight 103 had just been informed that the plane had gone down. My fiance arrived home white as a sheet, along with my family. I was home and the news interrupted the program announcing the disaster. It was horrific.
I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
A business associate of my Father's was sat in seat 2B. He is also buried at Tundergarth. Rest in Peace.
I'm sorry for your loss. I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
The people of LOCKERBIE were SO HEROIC..SO KIND...
My girlfriend & I visited the garden of remembrance dedicated to the poor innocent people who died travelling from a holiday in Scotland back to the East Midlands & it was very moving and so sad to see how many people who lost their life’s.
Lockerbie is a lovely town & sadly will be remembered for the tragic disaster that happened in 1988.
Thank you for remembering all who died and suffered through this tragedy. It is so hard to believe it’s been 30yrs. I think of it every December. It has stayed in my memory all these years. In many ways it seems like, maybe 10yrs., Instead of 30yrs.
I’m sure the suffering continues. Bless everyone who was touched by this horrific tragedy.
My father worked for Pan American and had retired after working for Pam Am for 45 years and l recall how everyone in our family was heartbroken… we did not know for awhile that it was a terrorist attack. So sorry for everyone on the plane and the people of Lockerbie. I have never forgotten that day.
I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
I was driving up the A74 over the border with my father about a week or so after the disaster and it was horrific.
My father was an airline captain and at the time I was an avionics engineer and all we could do was stare at miles upon miles of twisted wreckage as we slowly drove through Lockerbie.
I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
@@louise_digitaldiary Certainly - sorry for the delay.
Murdered not killed
While watching news coverage of this I swear I saw a baby’s body resting in or near the gutter on the roof of a house just hours afterward but never repeated, I cannot be the only one to have witnessed this.
I saw on a news report a crane rope attached to one leg of a woman being lifted in the air, it has stayed in my mind since then, wondering who she was. She didn’t seem to have any injuries either. Some things stay with you forever.
12:12 it’s not a baby but not good
I saw the explosion from on the top of killhope 58 miles away, a big orange fire ball in the sky, I was on my way home from Penrith to Stanhope 😢
No good can ever come out of such barbarity but at least the victims had dignity in death with the people of Lockerbie tending to them with respect and love. God bless the victims of the plane, in the houses and the loved ones left behind x
I was 10 years old when this happened and remember “Lockerbie, Scotland”. I have always wanted to go visit the highlands…❤❤ God bless those souls: lost and survived. I’m posting this on the anniversary: December 21, 2022…34 years ago.😢
A superb report by STV news touching and moving . proud to be Scottish rip to all of them.
As someone who lives in America, their accents are mesmerizing.
You plug.😂
1988 was a sad year in many ways for Scotland. With both Lockerbie and the piper alpha tragedy in the North Sea.
The Piper Alpha tragedy has been brought up a few times at work. The importance of doing a thorough work shift hand over. I think the accident was caused by a pipe blind being left in place and the on coming crew not knowing about it.
@@retrobilly1986what was the piper alpha incident???
Kaye Adams & big john MacKay Scottish TV legends .
Never forget 🇬🇧we shall prevail ! Respect to the lost and fallen
0:23 I watched the air crush investigation on Nat.Geo (Lockerbie episode) and one of the female residence in Lockerbie said : From today I'will not believe in god any more , and she was damn right , so let this man STF ... To all those who died in Lockerbie I will always say RIP and you will never be forgotten
I remember this so clearly I still think from time to time of the people involved and how horrific it was. I was getting ready for Christmas and thought of all the families for whom Christmas would never be the same again, children college students everyone, and those on the ground. R.I.P.
I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
RIP to all the lives lost that night, gone, but not forgotten.
A special place is waiting for those evil enough to take innocent lives i'm sure.
I remember the night this happened. I lived only 60 miles from Lockerbie, I stood at my window looking out into the night thinking of the horror unfolding in my wee country. I'll never forget that feeling. My brother was in the RAF at the time and was one of the clean up crew sent there....he has never spoken of what he saw.....
god bless everyone in this situation.
What a terrible tragedy.
RIP
12:12 RIP 😢 Heartbreaking
😱😥 oh dear god ☠️
I live on a flight path for east midlands airport and still have a massive phobia about a plane landing on my house at night since watching this on the news .really shouldnt be watching this as it will probably make my fear worse . I know that its billion to one or probably more .but sometimes when they fly over lower than usual i have a full on panic attack . God only knows what it must have been like for those thst weren't killed out right thdt luved in Lockerbie. Terrifying and extremely sad .
I remember this awful act of pure evil back in 1988, i was only 8 at the time, it puts tears in my eyes, so many innocent people sadly lost there lives. I visited the village of Lockerbie in 2014 and lay flowers at the memorial at the garden of remembrance. It's heartbreaking. Those people didn't deserve to die. Its mass murder and the justice system is a total failure.
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Absolutely horrific omg those poor people like mh17 gone in a instant
It’s hard to imagine what it’s like unless you were there. What happened to all the debris, including the plane?
It scattered all over covering an area bigger than London.
@@jimmykray9583 it wouldn’t surprise me that’s for sure.
I’m tempted to visit the memorial ground soon. What has since happened to the wreckage, has it been moved from the location? To think, Lockerbie was a small town few folk knew about unless they lived there or nearby and to think now, it has got such huge fame.
@@bestrickie2 I don’t know what happened to the wreckage but I know they have a nice memorial display up there for everyone who was killed and Americans come every year or so to pay respects.
4:17 Pan Am 103 on 21.12.88 pushed back from the terminal at or just a few minutes after 18:00 that night it just spent the next twenty minutes or so in the queue waiting to take off before finally getting airborne at 18:25 I'm not sure how that can be disputed given it was monitored by the ground air traffic controllers at Heathrow.
I was in my 20s and traveled every fall to Europe and the winter holiday in the Caribbean. So it hit me hard, the innocent victims and the cowardice of the hateful terrorists. Thank you for remembering all the victims.
Thankuu, I was working for pan AM in FFM as an reservation agent and and I became at the beginning of my shift the whole passenger list and people asked me if they suffered at the bombing or whether they died soon.
Of course it took at least a couple of minutes but I could not tell them that.
If it exploded 10 minutes later it would not have landed in the ocean.
To avoid a bad weather cell the flight route was changed to take the plane up Scotland where it would start swinging out to the atlantic to the north of the Isle of skye.
I was 16 years old visiting Germany from Detroit when news broke of this horror. Had the terrorists chosen the 23rd I would have perished aboard the flight. It's been nearly 32 years now, and it looks like another terrorist is about to face justice for this. Better late than never. My thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the families who lost loved ones in the tragedy, and the countless others who were scarred by the events.
That would have been the Libyan government trying to choose this date or yours 23rd.
And - albeit in a different way from the families of the victims - I suppose it must have been tough for the people of Lockerbie.
The name of their town is now synonymous around the world with misery and dark terror, and they have to carry on trying to live their ordinary lives every day, knowing that they're surrounded by a place of so many tragic deaths.
There were several people who SHOULD HAVE BEEN aboard Pan Am 103 that evening including the pop group The Four Tops, Sex & The City’s actress Kim Cattrall and John Lyndon (the Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten).
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Mr Tate (David White) from Bewitched fame, his son was on that flight.
@@sondragramse1770 😭
There was a man who was supposed to be on the flight. I forgot his name but he was drinking in the airport bar with friends, realized he was going to be late and ran to the gate missing the plane by seconds. He was initially a suspect and questioned by the FBI until they could confirm his checked luggage wasn't the one that carried the bomb.
@@nataliekubus1041yes. He literally missed it by seconds
Again, it is hard to imagine and how long it took to clear the debris and rebuild the town again?
I was only 5 and i don't remember this until i got a little older...i can't imagine!😢😢
I’m surprised those windows of the nosecone are still intact
Remember though they're not like windows in your home or even your car....
They're aviation windows, which means they're layered and thickened and basically welded in place. Remember, they are designed to keep the aircraft cabin pressurized and the plane, passengers, and cargo safe and secure.
@@Mommyandtux true
It must have been a massive fright, one minute everything normal, residents of Lockerbie having their usual evening meal, getting ready for Christmas and then the next thing you know, seeing the massive bright glow in the sky, the loud noise, wondering what the hell was going on. It would not surprise me if they thought the world was coming to a sudden end, some kind of unidentified flying object about to cause destruction et cetera an experience they will never ever forget. It’s strange to think, this town was not known too many others unless they lived there or nearby. The debris I understand scattered for miles and miles beyond the town possibly as far down as Carlisle and as far north as Lockshire in Scotland. Not forgetting the massive bright glow in the sky must have spread for miles and miles beyond going southbound and northbound and again, it is extremely difficult to think what it was like on the very night Wednesday 21st of December 1988.
I remember the first TV reports. They thought the plane may have landed on a petrol station. That brought home how much fire and devastation there must have been. Thinking of all those who lost people, and had their lives changed by what they saw that day.
RAF Northolt SW London know something about that
I remember that like it was yesterday I was in the army I was 28 at the time it still breaks my heart driving past Lockerbie up to Scotland 😢😢😢
I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
Hate to be that guy, but...
Terminal cancer... Karma's a bitch buddy🤷♂️
👍👍👍👍
Didn’t die until 2012 though he lived nearly 30 years. That’s not karma
Why do people always say the flight was delayed?? It wasn't. It's been told and proven since 1988 that it took off on time.
People lost so much and then you blame an innocent country
Libyan intelligence = Libya sanctioned, dunno why they are innocent to you, weirdo. There was a conviction, and a second one soon. Surprised this did not start a war.
What country?
God bless all the people affected by this barbaric act..Terrorism will NEVER prevail.
R.I.P to all the victims and burn in hell to the bomber who didn't board the plane.
He died of cancer at 2012
@@ChrisMac2489 ....WRONG!!!! Abdelbaset al Megrahi had absolutely nothing to do with the bombing of PanAm103. You have been brainwashed by the American and British governments.
@@ChrisMac2489not true. They just caught the bastard and he was in Court today.
@@ALT-vz3jn aye the maker of the bomber they one who put the bomb on the flight ✈️ is dead
Many say he wasn't the actual bomber
So sad .
I joined the army in September of that year by the December the regiment I was in was involved in the aftermath of the Lockerbie disaster
Thank you for your service . Must have been heartbreaking . I was struck with how much dignity the recovery operation was conducted with . Can I ask a question. ?? I understand if you don't want to answer .
Were you offered any kind of therapy or counselling years later ?? By the army or some other organisation??
I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm doing a project on it in school. I have some questions about it, as I'm trying to represent it in the most accurate way. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.
12:12
OMG I didn't think ITV would have shown that. That poor person
Remember it so vividly and watching the TV newsflash.
Why would u do it
Just because the plane didn't leave on time, it fell on Lockerbie, you can't really say if would've been better if it left on time, because this was tragedy of enormous proportions, but it would've been better for the residents because they wouldn't of had to deal with it, it would've been an ocean recovery.
The only thing that is somewhat of a solace of it exploding when it did is 90% of the bodies were recovered and only a handful of families didn't get that closure. Having it explode over the Atlantic many more would have never been brought home. 🫤
Imzgine not only dealing with your grief but having to tell your young children that daddy wont be coming home.
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😢Bless everyone involved
My wife and I went to floridda the year before on the same aircraft maid of the sea I never went again .? Those poor souls watra@live
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@@louise_digitaldiary I rode on the Maid of the Seas coming home from a job in the Persian Gulf some time in 1980. The flight was from London Heathrow to JFK in New York. The plane was parked at the gate at Heathrow where the nose took up the whole window section. It looked so huge that I had to snap a 35mm photo of it. This was an afternoon flight and somewhere over the Atlantic, I woke up and looked out and saw the ocean with beautiful puffy clouds over it in gold, orange, and purple from the afternoon sun. It looked like a glimpse of heaven. Music Box Dancer was playing on my headset. I was shocked to see the cockpit of Maid of the Seas lying on the ground in Lockerbie, the same side that I photographed years before. I sometimes play the song from my playlist but do so late at night and alone. Nobody wants to see a man in his 70's crying his eyes out.
09:50 that is awful 😢
This was the work of Iran, not Libya.
I went there to the graves of the captain of the flight i laid a red rose.
Im so sorry to anyone reading this who was affected by this terror.
May you never be forever forgotten.
Rip
Edinburgh Scotland
Today 21/12/2021 1988 R.I.P.
Was there in Scotland when this happened
I hate terrorism whatsoever it still upset my self o all thousands people who were on their way home 🏠 for Christmas 🎄😢it still hurts 😮when I see big large plaine in the sky makes me feel like prayer for them every year of the ancient omg 😳😳❤ love 💕 always goes to them 😮I just pray all the time every one 😮😇😇😇😇
They fight for the scraps from long shanks but would they fight for freedom
Lockerbie isn't part of the STV region- it's Border
Jeez does it really matter 🤷♂️
Iran Air 655
That was shot down, this was a bombing. MH17 was more like that.
2 wrongs don't make a right.
'PAN AM' not 'PAM AM' (3:45)
Bless 🙏🙏 all thoughts are with them in Scotland borders my thoughts are with them all😮😢
Rip to them Pam am
19-km = 12-mi
I know this was bad. But for those on the ground it could have been a lot worse
11 residents died, and the others the mental anguish of what they witnessed. How much worse did it have to be??!
@@BM-nr8wh A lot worse. it could have hit the whole village and killed a lot more than 11.
Congratulations on an incredible replay a of Prince Andrews words on the subject………
Remember, Islam is the religion of peace.
"You can run-but you cannot hide"-Justice for famalies and victims of this henious act-God Bless-
a friend Merry Christmas -they would want it lol TOMMY24
Yahassss
Thanks religion
1.5 billion dead since 1973.
Thanks satanists.
Nonsense.
*islam
Some passengers could of survived had they been found right away and give medical help.
Explain how you would find them at night in that terrain. 🇬🇧
Israel/Mossad bombed the jet, They framed Gaddafi because he was against their crimes, Rip Gaddafi.
NO, it was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who bombed the jet. They framed Gaddafi because he raised the prices so high on bales of hay that they bought to feed their horses, that the horses were starving. Gaddafi's well-known hay-monopoly devastated mounted police agencies all over the world in 1988. RIP to all those dead horses.
man,it is so hard to understand scottish people talking
Only hard when you don't listen and remain closed-minded.
I just remember a 747 that blown out at the back of the cabin and cracked all the way around the plane but this one didn't crash it wasn't the only one. So this is way I think it was a cover up and it was easy for the USA to blame terrorist attack just look at Boeing 737 max how they kept that under their hat's just saying...
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