ARCHIVE: Lockerbie Bombing 1988 - BBC Newsnight 

When England was... well... English.

Agree - is it something in the water today? But yet see Bush flounder and Malcolm Rifkind being totally authoratative. Unfortunately... we don't have anyone of Rifkind's calibre here in the UK at the mo and Bush sounds like a towering intellectual compared to trump.

Ya, no political bias. Just the news ma'am

At 40 years on continued with a political lightweight presenter presenter Emily Maitless who once presented BBC London News, not keen on the new formate at all after the 2010 format was dropped, worst its ever been.

@@adrianaprosen2918 that famous English town of Lockerbie

May she rest in peace ❤

Sorry for the loss.😔

Hopefully she didn’t suffer. Sorry x

Hi- I'm so 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.

@@louise_digitaldiaryHello, you can ask but I have no special knowledge about the bombing, so I don't know that I would be of much help.

I suffered very, very much for these innocent civilians, the victims. It was a very painful scene. The real perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The state of Iran is the real perpetrator of this crime, and there is a lot of evidence for that.

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, especially on a mental level. Could I ask you them? It would mean a lot. If not, God bless.

@@louise_digitaldiary Sure, no problem. Do you have an email address or Twitter etc?

As a former railway incident response officer i agree

@@Sam-mn4ed ?

Amen 🕊️🕯️ Great respect 🕊️🕯️🥀

Hi. I'm so 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.

Especially the flannigans. Their house got crushed by the plane and 1 10 year old and 2 parents died. My mother used to date steven flannigan who overdosed in a hotel because of the traumatizing stress. It was so sad.

Yes and the people responsible are still out and some innocent convicted brilliant

@@beverleylumb8048 ......Totally agree. The politically motivated and utterly ridiculous conviction of 'lone bomber' Abdul Baset al Megrahi [and blaming of Libya] was as Professor Robert Black sadly stated, 'The worst miscarriage of Scottish Law in over 100 years'. An absolute disgrace.

@@miaipadkid8697 That's just awful. Poor family. I can understand how the trauma could send a person that deep into depression and hopelessness. RIP.

@@thesoultwins72 Your words are very, very correct and accurate. What happened is a very big global laughing stock for all the peoples of the world. They must admit the real perpetrator of the crime.

Hahaha ha ha !! No, but you must have been bloody sweaty lol !! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂💂💂💂🙃😉🙃😉

Except for what he said T the time which I agree was crass can we keep prince Andrew out of this?

😂

Same here..remember that night clear as day..i lived 14 miles away on the flightpath. They thought a fighter jet had crashed into the petrol station at first

I was 10 when this happened and it's stayed with me.

Totally agree. One of the other images that stayed with me, because of how shocking it was, was the body that was in the roof beams of one of the destroyed houses in sherwood crescent. That really brought it home about how devastating it was.

i wonder if the pilots fought to gain control of the nose cone while it descended, it was 5 miles away from the main debris field.

@Andro mache They found bodies, lots of them, body parts too. Were they planted with the pristine passports? I heard David Copperfield made the illusion that planes were involved but it was all a mind fuck. He was so good he made the buildings come down without being hit!! What's not to believe?

They cut corners because they were in financial trouble.

😢 Aww bless her

Blessings

God bless her I sob every time i see this and think of the people just prior to Christmas. I do remember the town were wonderful

Aww, bless her heart. ♥️

Can i find you on tinder?

But they named new suspects just a few months ago. Even though they may be dead, they can still charged and convicted in absentia.

I suffered very, very much for these innocent civilians, the victims. It was a very painful scene. The real perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The state of Iran is the real perpetrator of this crime, and there is a lot of evidence for that.

I suffered very, very much for these innocent civilians, the victims. It was a very painful scene. The real perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The state of Iran is the real perpetrator of this crime, and there is a lot of evidence for that.

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.

Tattershall.....tatters all...oh the irony

@@2degucitas someone needs to get a drone up there and check it out

@@AlonsoRules There are aerial pictures of the wreckage. My guess would be that they’re holding on to it if new evidence comes to light. Not sure about though because it’s been over 30 years since the incident. But we will never forget Pan Am 103.

I believe what’s left of the cockpit is stored elsewhere though.

Pan Am 103 debris ought to be sent back to the USA, alongside their Nuclear Polaris and Trident missile systems - pronto

I suffered very, very much for these innocent civilians, the victims. It was a very painful scene. The real perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The state of Iran is the real perpetrator of this crime, and there is a lot of evidence for that.

We know so much more about crime scenes now. The investigation was very effective given what we didn’t yet know. Amazing.

You’re right, it’s so mad seeing the other lane of that motorway open the next day! I realise it was the main road between England and Scotland on the west coast, but still - bloody hell. I’m surprised drivers weren’t so busy lollygagging at the crash scene that they crashed themselves!

@Viola Player what's thT got. To do with the children on the jet? Two wrongs don't makke a right.

Nobody deserved this...whether adults or children. If the fate of the passengers and crew on the Iranian jet really was the reason for Pan Am 103 being targeted, then all the perpetrators have done is recreate what happened to those passengers and crew on the Iranian jet - and thus further injured the memories of those on the Iranian jet. And that, I’m afraid, is just plain vile.

​@@onlybasketballs the 270 innocent people didn't deserve this. Two wrongs don't make a right

I'm so sorry for what you went through. 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 suffered very, very much for these innocent civilians, the victims. It was a very painful scene. The real perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The state of Iran is the real perpetrator of this crime, and there is a lot of evidence for that.

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.

You flew on that Plane,not that Flight.

Sorry James My Mistake,You were Saying,Was it a good Flight?😁

The Flight Designation Was Pan Am 103. And was when it was blown out of the air! @@trentmiller8139

@@trentmiller8139 Well no the flight number is the same week in week out. Please refrain from comment if you have nothing of note to say. Regards Mart.

@@martf8014 No thankyou!

It could have been

A Nuclear warhead from Eastern Europe - 1988 to 2023 ?

fueselage & wings ( fuel disintergrated them )

I suffered very, very much for these innocent civilians, the victims. It was a very painful scene. The real perpetrator of this heinous crime must be held accountable. The state of Iran is the real perpetrator of this crime, and there is a lot of evidence for that.

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 think alerting people would have cost the airlines, airports, petrol and tourism companies a fortune, so why risk it?!

That's just her point. Life is far more precious than money every day of the week.

It sounds awful but they will have got bomb threats all the time and cannot keep closing down all flights

Governments, authorities and huge companies don’t care about people. They care about themselves and money.

JUST LIKE G DUBYA DID WITH 9-11: daddy and son both TOLD, daddy and son thought it a dumb joke.

America at work. Threatening and scaring their own people whilst blaming others.

@@iheartheenim okay, loser

I'm so sorry for your loss. I stumbled across your comment while researching the Lockerbie bombing. I'm a French student and 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.

Huh??

The scum who did it is in HELL now.

Julie people knew who did it from the first.All got caught up in world politics and the need to get Syria on board for desert storm

@@ChristopherSaindon, if you're referring to Al Megrahi, I actually don't think he's responsible.

@@clairefrier2353 Ask any liberal and they'll say Trump did it.

No. His family appealed and it was ruled that he was rightly convicted. It usually takes more than 1 person to pan, make and plant a bomb. It sounds like the actual bomb maker was simply not found at the time. www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/lockerbie-bombing-who-is-suspected-bomb-maker-abu-agila-mohammad-masud-1.1130517

Pan Am 103 was blown up in the sky causing a very large debris field. United 93 was direct impact into the ground at a huge speed.

and vaporized in impact like no other plane crash ever did on impact ?@@discogareth

@@brianlopez8855 it didn’t entirely vaporize. There were remains of both aircraft and victims. You need to not get your info from conspiracy sites buddy. Because 22 years later, you’re still believing nonsense.

Look at pictures of the aftermath of Ethiopian Airways Flight 302, which crashed at an estimated speed of just under 700MPH. Very little of that plane survived, mostly just fragments. Also noteworthy is the 737 Max crashed at a far more shallow angle than United 93

He’s always been an insufferable arsehole.

He doesn’t look so smart now!!

i had just turned 11 that day.although panam had since been replaced on the australia runs by united a few years earlier it had us kids worried about flying a us carrier for our first trip to america three weeks later.luckily we were on continental.

Well, what foes that mean ??? To whom did they belong too then ????

@@donsarde hi the bomb was hidden inside a Toshiba bombbeat radio cassette player then packed inside a suitcase covered by different items of clothing - it was thought to have come in on an interconnecting flight - can’t remember where - it was then loaded onto pan am flight 103. The bags were not matched to passengers and security was v lax - nowadays a passenger cannot just load their luggage and not board their flight !

@@samantharossiter8808from Luqa, Malta.

Certainly hasn't studied tact or compassion.

It was. Mail in their already closed coffin.

Robert Wilcock ......Whilst you are perfectly correct about Lockerbie being in revenge for the downing of an Iranian aircraft - most of your post is totally inaccurate. Here are the actual facts: 'On 3 July 1988, Iran Air flight 655 and all 290 passengers and crew onboard was blown out of the sky by two surface-to-air missiles launched at it by US cruiser, USS Vincennes. The crew of the US$3 billion Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser [equipped with the state-of-the-art 'Aegis Combat System' - which was and still is one the most advanced integrated naval weapons systems ever developed] inexplicably mistook an A300 Airbus for a F-14 jet fighter. [this is akin to confusing a small dog with a horse!] To make matters worse, US President Ronald Reagan openly praised and awarded 'Medals of Honour' to both the Captain of the USS Vincennes [William C. Rogers III] as well as the senior weaponry officer. As a result, the justifiably incensed Iranians ‘contracted’ the Syrian-Palestinian backed and Ahmed Jibril-led PFLP-GC [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command] to carry out revenge attacks on 5 American airplanes. A payment of US$10 million was agreed with Jibril for the attacks. [This action was code-named ‘Operation Intekam’ - which means ‘equal and just revenge’ in English]. The targets were to be on major American commercial airline operators with flights originating in Europe and to various destinations in the U.S. The Iranian's motivation was pure revenge and to fulfill the promise that the skies would "rain blood."

So two wrongs make it right then do they ? Rubbish

Can you explain to mme how the children on the. Flight and on the ground were to blame for the downing of the earlier.aircraft? Or the Syracuse students? Or the people killed in their own homeex in lockerbie?

I agree that that was tragic too but how did blowing up the lockerbie flight help anyone on Iranian jet. Two wrongs. Don't make aright. N EYE FOR AN EYE LEAVES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND

It's not your fault. Sure Czech people were as horrified as the rest of us.

I don't blame the ordinary Czech people and I'm sur most people dont

He was a good man, probably exhausted and thrown a required script 2 seconds before he read it. So many politicians are mandated to read what’s provided, especially in international events, just to be completely careful. Crazy to think that George Schultz only recently died, after making the terrible error in believing Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Crazy. Even worse is to imagine that dipshit Joe Biden was actually elected President of the United States of America. He was long known as being the dumbest idiot ever to enter politics. 🤦🏼‍♀️

The plane left Heathrow half an hour late but madde up some time. It was blown up just short of reaching international airspace. I feel great sadness for those killed in Lockerbie, it wasn't our fight. I had hoped that now Thatcher and Bush41 are dead the truth could be acknowledged. Iran paid a Palestinian terrorist group in Germany to do it, simple.

It depends how you say it. It's a very soft, gentle word in the local dialect and it's so sad that it's tainted with this horrible association. The people in this video are all English and aren't saying it right, with too much emphasis on on the "lock" bit. It's said like: loh-Kerr-bee You don't say the emphasis on the c like you do in lock, but say the K like how it's pronounced at the start of "kite"

@@Jazzinthedark84 I just remembered how Michael Gordon, a resident of Lockerbie and helper with search, says it in the Air Crash Investigation show. Now I see.

And your point is? The name is derived from Old Norse, and means Lockard's Town, so it predates the existence of military jets by about 1,000 years.

Oh yea it’s a fun fact 😩

I believe the eleven people who died on the ground were all in the houses in Sherwood Crescent. Amazingly, the motorists all seem to have survived.

I always wondered about that. I presume nobody died on the A74, thankfully. We certainly didn’t hear about any deaths there.

The driver of the red vauxhall cavalier survived and was featured in a documentary about people's fear of flying. Apparently he has a genuine fear of planes crashing into him. He doesn't trust the sky.

@Ry G his name was Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, there's an entire Wikipedia page dedicated just to his release. He went back to Lybia where he was celebrated as a hero.

@Ry G lmao u for real??

This is true, he had cancer so was released early on compassionate release! How crazy is that??? He died 3yrs later.

@@PAXperMortem There was no proof against him. He was framed. Even Scottish judges concluded that injustice was done to him.

@@Skymaster.47 Scottish court of appeal ruled that he was properly convicted

Explosive decompression after the detonation of the bomb tore the Aircraft apart. If you look up explosive decompression on Aircraft at 31,000ft after Detonation of an explosion it goes in to detail about it and there’s a video aswel. I could explain it in detail to you but I feel looking it up will help you understand alot better. I’m an Independent Air Crash Investigator hence the reason I know so much.

GFY

Execution of who?

@@thejoelcameronbrown I don't know her name, she was executed at night on April 13 1987. She was pregnant, and she was hanged over a pit of fire, the video recording was made using a ground pad for the camera. She shouted this: "God will beat you for doing this" as the flame grew to 2 m length. The substance was probably jetfuel. She was probably named Christine.

@@jozsiolah1435 what

I’m sorry, this comment doesn’t make sense.

@@aviatrix91 Everything is on the track, so you don't need to take further actions. If you are interested in the live burning video, you have to contact the White House.

An eye for N eye makes the whole world blind. The Italian air craft was a tragedy so was 103. Passengers and crew were innocent.

The flight path was amended due to a late take-off and weather conditions. It’s not unusual in aviation. Had the flight been on time and on schedule the bomb would have detonated over the Atlantic (and in international airspace), which is was what was intended - ocean debris would have made investigation and recovery a helluva lot more difficult. The residents of Lockerbie were desperately unlucky that night.

Typical Prince Andrew, innit? The man’s a fucking idiot, and that’s the nicest thing I have to say about him.

Ooft. What a horrendous job. 😔