In 1988, a routine flight took off from London Heathrow. It was the second leg of a transatlantic flight that would stop in JFK, before heading even further west, to Detroit. In fact, Flight 103 had started off in Frankfurt. But something got on the flight in the German airport that shouldn’t have. It was a brown samsonite suitcase, filled with clothing and a Toshiba cassette tape player. Inside the electronics was a pound of semtex and a timer.
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Scottish countryside, killing everyone aboard, 11 people on the ground, and scattering debris for miles around the countryside.
But who had planted the bomb?
Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @MensReaPod
Don’t forget to check out how you can support us at Patreon.com. Thanks to each of our patrons, you keep this show on the road!
Theme Music:
Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Sources:
Kenny MacAskill, The Lockerbie Bombing: The search for justice (London: Biteback Publishing, 2016)
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103#Compassionate_release_and_controversy
Syracuse University- Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives https://panam103.syr.edu/2008exhibit.php
Report on the accident to Boeing 747-121, N739PA at Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland on 21 December 10988 Air Accidents Investigation Branch (Department of Transport) 2/90 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f36ee5274a1317000489/2-1990_N739PA.pdf
DIA documents: https://web.archive.org/web/20080308085805/http://www.dia.mil/publicaffairs/Foia/panam103.pdf
Lockerbie bomber’s conviction to be reviewed” from BBC.comhttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-43987079 (3 May 2018)
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission https://www.sccrc.co.uk/conviction
Lucy Adams and Josh Aston, “Lockerbie Exclusive: we publish the report that could have cleared Megrahi” in The Herald Scotland https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13051748.lockerbie-exclusive-we-publish-the-report-that-could-have-cleared-megrahi/ (24 March 2012)
Robert Black QC Lockerbie Blog: http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2015/03/sccrc-2007-megrahi-report-enters-public.html
SCCRC report http://login.heraldscotland.com/SCCRC-Statement-of-Reasons-red.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)