My darling Mum died on that day, so I didn't hear of this tragedy until late evening when I got home from the hospital. Such a terrible terrible day. God Bless them all! xxx
Fair play to the great Michael Buerk for delivering the news in a professional manner. He was, as we all know, the familiar voice of the first reports of the Ethiopian famine back on 23rd October 1984.
With six weeks to go before Sky launched, this was the last major news event in Britain for information of which you had to wait for newsflashes on both TV and Radio.
8:07 - Back in 1988, BBC Breakfast Time was usually scheduled to air from 7am - 9am on BBC One. Of course due to this tragic event, the programme came on air earlier at 6am. TV-am would be on air at 6am too covering the event.
My sister-law's-cousin was a flight attendant on that terrible flight. Her husband has been trying to get his reparation payment since 2002, and he has been waiting for the final payment since the fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011.
RIP to all those 270 people who died in the Lockerbie bombing on the 21st December 1988. I was 6 years old at the time when it happened and I saw it on TV. My condolences goes out to all their families and friends. 🙏🙏
Terrible Christmas that one. We had a personal tragedy in our family (my Nan on Christmas Eve). She'd been unconscious since around 11th December after a sudden brain haemorrhage. I was only three then but recall some of the news reports of this as well as trying to work out where my Nan was
I'm sad so many people had such a terrible Christmas 1988. I feel bad saying it, but Christmas 1988 was one of my favourite Christmases (I was only 9), although I was vaguely aware of the Lockerbie Disaster. The only *personal* negative for me was how drunk my dad got on Christmas Day, that we had to carry him home.
Tragedy has no time limit, it can strike before/during/after Christmas. I remember a friend saying to me that a problem, an attack, something horrible is magnified a million times worse when it happens in the month of December, all due to Christmas. If this horror happened in early January, it would still be appalling, but it would have been outside of Christmas.
Not a Good December/Christmas for anyone in 1988 with the Armenian Earthquake on December 7th, The Clapham Rail crash on the morning of December 12th and then this.
And in the New Year there was the air crash at Kegworth, it seems that period around Christmas 1988 and early 1989 was a high time of tragic and distressing news stories on a higher volume than usual.
@@jmxtvarchive9064the whole of the 80s had huge events piper alpha kings cross fire bradford city fire chernobyl zerbrugge heysel hillsborough the list goes on and on
