A policeman walks away from the cockpit of the 747 Pan Am airliner that exploded and crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. Britain was commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing Sunday, recalling the night a US-bound jet carrying 259 passengers and crew was blown up over a Scottish town. (AFP/File/Roy Letkey)From AFP:
LOCKERBIE, Scotland (AFP) – Britain was commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing Sunday, recalling the night a US-bound jet carrying 259 passengers and crew was blown up over a Scottish town.
Memorial services are scheduled to take place from 1400 GMT in the small, quiet community of some 4,000 people, where 11 people were also killed on the ground as flaming debris from the plane crushed houses.
Relatives of the dead are expected to attend a service at London's Heathrow Airport, where Pan Am Flight 103 took off on the night of December 21, 1988, carrying mostly Americans home for Christmas.
Barely 40 minutes into the flight to New York, the Boeing 747 was ripped apart by a bomb in the luggage hold at an altitude of 9,400 metres (31,000 feet), killing everyone on board.
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My Comment: 20 years later .... and the terrorist attack accomplished nothing but destroying the lives of hundreds of families. Lockerbie, Air India .... we should have paid more attention on the consequences of these bombings.
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