Eleven people were decimated; nothing remained later to identify them aside from the artificial knee of 81-year-old Mary Lancaster, the oldest of the victims. The hedge was gone and there were fresh pebbles down. Since the tragedy, Colin has formed a bond with relatives of some of the 270 victims. Steve said: They had some smaller aircraft based in Germany that took us up. Moves are still continuing to bring the two suspects to trial under Scottish law in the Netherlands, acting as a neutral third country. Although the most important water line was broken, the fire department was able to put out all the fires within seven and a half hours. Normally only four policemen worked in the Lockerbie region, but by Thursday morning there were 1,100 working alongside 1,000 other soldiers, firemen and volunteers. The bomb, constructed with the odourless . 7.02pm and 50 seconds On board the Maid of the Seas. The boutique owner Tony Gauci has been questioned 16 times, but has never clearly identified the Libyan agent thought to have visited him. Two hundred fifty . Do you have a story or video for The Scottish Sun? It was coming rapidly closer with a rising groan and howl as if at any moment the noise would make the house explode like a kettle under pressure. Rs.4,000 to be paid at the time of submitting application. Perhaps it was because the catastrophe seemed so unreal that the people of Lockerbie did not become hysterical or apathetic, as so often happens in such situations. Prosecutors said Mr. Fhimah put the suitcase on a conveyor belt, ultimately ending up on Pan Am Flight 103. There is no indication what that noise is. On December 21, Pan Am 103 was beginning the second leg of its Frankfurt-London-New York-Detroit route. Clipper 1736 Pan Am 1736 carries 378 passengers, 16 crew, and two Pan Am employees, who boarded in Tenerife and are sitting in the cockpit jumpseats. The Lockerbie bombing took place on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky. var countername = countername(location.href), tld = prod_name(countername); The pathologist said all 11 were killed instantly when the planes fuel-laden wing section exploded in a fireball. Both are normally left in the wake of explosions triggered by the plastic explosive Semtex, which was produced in Czechoslovakia at the time. In Carlisle, 33 miles from Lockerbie, relatives of the 258 people who died on the Boeing 747 began gathering to identify the remains of loved ones. Light material, such as insulation from the interior of the fuselage and torn pages of books, was found as far away as 130km. By the time day broke on the morning after the disaster, Steve was already on site. For a while, there was only sound and light where houses were burning. 7,000 troops from 40 countries hold full-scale rehearsal as RAF base is Latin translation of 'long live Queen Camilla, long live King Charles' will greet royal couple as they enter Rare 12th century coin that depicts Malcolm IV of Scotland will go on show in Dunfermline to mark the King's Patricia Kane For The Scottish Mail On Sunday, Do not sell or share my personal information. } Pan Am hoped to emerge from bankruptcy court, but after realizing it was losing $3 million per day, Delta stopped its cash advances. For many, it was a shock to see the airline that had pioneered modern aviation disappear, but the collapse had been at least a decade in . document.write(''); The other 259 people aboard the aircraft died when the bomb blew apart the jetliner Dec. 21, 1988 or were killed by the 30,000-foot fall to earth, said Dr. Anthony Busuttil, professor of Forensic Medicine at Edinburgh University.