On 26 August 2011, it was announced that the whereabouts of Al-Megrahi were unknown due to the social upheaval in Libya and that he had not been in contact for some time. I got an expert in to confirm I was being listened to. It said activities of victims relatives would need careful watching. While in Lockerbie, 7 years after the flight, she meets the women who witnessed and were affected by the crash itself while she attempts to find closure. [132], Compensation for the families of the PA103 victims was among the steps set by the UN for lifting its sanctions against Libya. Like many people in Lockerbie, Colin has formed a close bond with relatives of the American victims, taking them on tours of the area so they can better understand what happened to their loved ones. After a three-year joint investigation by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the US FBI, during which 15,000 witness statements were taken, indictments for murder were issued on 13 November 1991 against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, the LAA station manager in Luqa Airport, Malta. David Jardine, now a group commander with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, was 19 years old and had just completed basic training with the Dumfries and Galloway Fire Brigade. All 259 on board die, and 11 on ground. [80], A procedural hearing at the Appeal Court took place on 11 October 2007 when prosecution lawyers and Megrahi's defence counsel, Maggie Scott QC, discussed a number of legal issues with a panel of three judges. (5 minutes) LOCKERBIE, ScotlandThe sky rained fire on a chill December night here in 1988. On December 21, 1988, the State of Libya bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 innocent civilians. Scottish police officers and Lockerbie residents regularly volunteered to be guides and companions to these special visitors, and because of the grace and compassion shown to grieving strangers a long way from home, lasting bonds were formed. Their presence gave rise to speculations and conspiracy theories that one or more of them had been targeted.[35]. During what Boyd calls Phase 1 of the investigation--the search for bodies--victims were discovered over a 10-mile radius around Lockerbie. Al-Megrahi later sent to jail in Glasgow. [102], After the United States government obtained custody of Mas'ud, heads of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committees of the Libyan Parliament, Talal al-Mihoub and Youssef al-Aqouri, demanded an urgent investigation into the extradition of Mas'ud, calling it a blatant violation of national sovereignty and an infringement of the rights of the Libyan citizen. Col Gaddafi denies Libya involved. Shortly after Mueller became FBI Director in 2001just days before the 9/11 attackshe asked Turman to establish a new Office for Victim Assistance at the FBI. The wreckage from Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland December 21, 1988. The American peopleand our adversariesneed to know that we dont give up.. Had his parents' bodies been recovered, the entire family would be buried there together. Several other houses and their foundations were destroyed, and 21 others were damaged beyond repair. These little details somehow softened the blow for us. We update each other on what both organizations are doing, we have regular face-to-face meetings, whether in the U.S. or Scotland, and we keep in contact., If I had a message to tell the families and people around the world, Cossar added, it is that this is very much a live investigation, and we are hopeful that at some point in the future we will have potentially another trial and possibly another conviction.. This had never been done in a Scottish court, said Tom McCulloch, who was a police officer with the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary when the Lockerbie air disaster occurred. We want to make sure we dont forget them, she said, and that we live the way they livedgoing after things, not being afraidalways looking forward and making the world a better place.. [20] A British Airways pilot, flying the LondonGlasgow shuttle near Carlisle, called Scottish authorities to report that he could see a huge fire on the ground. At 18, Colin Dorrance was the youngest police officer on duty that night and has never forgotten the child who was brought to him by the farmer. Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. holds one of its annual meetings during Remembrance Week, and every year FBI and Scottish investigators and prosecutors brief the group on the status of the case. It was held at a former U.S. Air Force base in the Netherlands called Camp Zeist, which was converted into a Scottish court as well as a detention facility for the two defendants. On December 1988, the Boeing 747 was scheduled to fly from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detroit, Michigan, via London and New York. Fragments of a Samsonite suitcase believed to have contained the bomb were recovered, together with parts and pieces of circuit board identified as components of a Toshiba 'Bombeat' RT-SF16, radio cassette player, similar to that used to conceal a Semtex bomb seized by West German police from the Palestinian militant group PLO-GC two months earlier. This thing happened, and its our job to share it with other people in a meaningful way, she said. August 2003: UN sanctions lifted against Libya after Tripoli accepts blame and compensates families. An official website of the United States government. Probably the biggest regret I have is that we did not get everybody, Marquise said recently. Nothing could have prepared you.. Then, two Libyan radio ships were sunk in the Gulf of Sidra. However, he says, although there may be bias against older entrepreneurs, his experience is a benefit, not a . The clothes were traced to a Maltese merchant, Tony Gauci, who became a key prosecution witness, testifying that he sold the clothes to a man of Libyan appearance. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. On December 21 Pan Am Flight 103 crashed on Lockerbie after the bombing of a Boeing 747-121. The suitcase was then routed to a feeder flight in Frankfurt bound for Londons Heathrow Airport, where it was ultimately loaded onto the doomed jet. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. The cabin crew was based at Heathrow and lived in the London area or commuted from around Europe. He had visited the property store in Lockerbie where the victims personal effects were cared for. It was like it was made of butter, and it was dripping.. . Its clear we were considered to be a mischief.. Thirty years later, the chancellors promise is being kept. In 2008, the UK government "decided to 'do all it could' to help the Libyans get Al-Megrahi home and explained the legal procedure for compassionate release to the Libyans."[94]. [123][124], In a July 2021 interview, Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam said that his father "had stopped riding his horse after the humiliation of the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986 and resumed riding it after the Lockerbie bombing."[125]. 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The laundry ladies, as they became known, began to clean and carefully fold and package the recovered clothing of the victims so that the items could be returned to loved ones. [88][89] On 20 August 2009, Megrahi was released from prison and travelled by chartered jet to Libya. Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on December 21, 1988. As the fire trucks crested a hill a few miles away from Lockerbie, we could see the glow, Jardine said. The next stage will see the group cycling 600 miles from the Lockerbie memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to Syracuse University, which lost 35 students in the bombing. The clear inference which we draw from this evidence is that the conception, planning and execution of the plot which led to the planting of the explosive device was of Libyan origin. All 259 people on board were killed, as well as 11 people in the town of . Thirty-five Syracuse students returning home from a study abroad program were killed on the flight, and the university vowed never to forget them. Pan Am Flight 103. The cargo area has been the site of explosives in past bombings, including that of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. There was not an emergency plan as such at the time, said Stuart Cossar, a Police Scotland detective inspector who until his recent retirement was the deputy senior investigating officer for the ongoing investigation. A Lockerbie disaster victims grandchildren gaze reflectively across the quiet land where their granddad died in Britains worst terrorist attack 30 years ago. Volunteers like the laundry ladies were just people who wanted to do the wee bit, to put something back in, and I think we can never lose sight of that, that human kindness. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The unaccompanied bag is believed to have been transferred to a Pan Am flight to London and then to Flight 103. Current-day Lockerbie seems the quiet and friendly town it has always been. But at Arlington National Cemetery this year, some of their grandchildren will be in attendance. [37] The other Lockerbie residents who died were two widows aged 82 and 81, who also both lived in Sherwood Crescent; they were the two oldest victims of the disaster. [5], In 2020, US authorities indicted the Tunisia resident and Libyan national Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, who was 37 years old at the time of the incident[6] for participating in the bombing, and in December 2022, they obtained custody of him. In October 2015, Scottish officials announced that two additional Libyans had been identified as suspects in the bombing. There were a lot of things we looked at with Pan Am 103 that formed the basis for where we went with the Victim Assistance Program in the Bureau., The Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. group was formed in 1989, shortly after the bombing. Investigators believed that two Libyan intelligence agents were responsible for the bombing; many speculated that the attack had been retaliation for a 1986 U.S. bombing campaign against Libyas capital city, Tripoli. The 200,000lb (91,000kg) of jet fuel ignited by the impact started fires, which destroyed several additional houses. Malta was brought into the case because the prosecution argued that the two accused Libyans, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, had placed the bomb on an Air Malta aircraft before it was transferred at Frankfurt airport to a feeder flight destined for London's Heathrow airport, from which Pan Am Flight 103 departed. Within days, the FrankfurtLondonNew YorkDetroit route was being served by Pan Am Flight 3 until the company's demise in 1991. On 7 July 2009, the court reassembled for a procedural hearing and was told that because of the illness of one of the judges, Lord Wheatley, who was recovering from heart surgery, the final two substantive appeal sessions would run from 2 November to 11 December 2009, and 12 January to 26 February 2010. But while they wept, tormented by their imagination of what had happened to 45-year-old Frank, thousands of miles away astonished farmers Margaret and Hugh Connell had discovered him six miles from the town in one of their fields still strapped to his seat, 11B, and almost unmarked. Authorities accused Libyan nationals Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah of manufacturing the bomb, which they said was made out of Semtex plastic explosives, concealed in a Toshiba cassette recorder, hidden in a Samsonite suitcase and slipped into an Air Malta flight headed from Malta to Frankfurt, Germany. Five radar echoes fanning out appeared, instead of one. Looking back and acting forward, thats our motto, said Katie Berrell, a Remembrance Scholar who represents her uncle. Then-Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi denied any culpability for the attack. A further US$2million would have gone to each family had the US State Department removed Libya from its list of states regarded as supporting international terrorism, but as this did not happen by the deadline set by Libya, the Libyan Central Bank withdrew the remaining US$540million in April 2005 from the escrow account in Switzerland through which the earlier US$2.16billion compensation for the victims' families had been paid. Ive never seen a law enforcement agency other than the Scottish police who did anything like this, Turman said. . I think that we have accomplished a lot, and that, to me, is how I have been able to handle it., With scholarships and endowments, Johnsons wife, Carole, added, we have been able to fulfill some of Beth Anns dreams for other people. News4's Derrick Ward reports about what that means for loved ones of some of the local victims. As we have also said, the absence of an explanation as to how the suitcase was taken into the system at Luqa is a major difficulty for the Crown case, but after taking full account of that difficulty, we remain of the view that the primary suitcase began its journey at Luqa. Its nice to come here, she explained. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The child was the first victim to arrive at what became a makeshift mortuary, but the young constable never discovered who she was, until a chance meeting with the farmer's son finally solved the mystery. For Dick Marquise, who had been in charge of the FBIs investigation, and other investigators who worked tirelessly on behalf of the victims, the trials results were decidedly mixed. Attali, Jacques (1995), Verbatim, Volume 3, Paris, Fayard. We didnt disclose a great deal of material to victims for fear that it would somehow damage the investigation., The magnitude of this case required new thinking. Subsequent analysis of the radar returns by RSRE concluded that the aircraft was tracking 321 (grid) and travelling at a ground speed of 803km/h (499mph; 434kn). We very much had a tradition where the court building was sacrosanct, McCulloch said. People who lived . It was three years before Franks widow Mary Lou and her family discovered the Connells moving vigil when they received a phone call in 1991 from another family whose loved one was also found on the farmland. [74][75][76], On 28 June 2007, the SCCRC announced its decision to refer Megrahi's case to the High Court for a second appeal against conviction. The Libyan government claimed the air strikes killed Hana Gaddafi, a daughter Gaddafi claimed he adopted (her reported age has varied between 15 months and seven years). Stobbs immediately made his way to Lockerbie and then to Sherwood Crescent. On Wednesday 21 December, 1988, just after 7pm, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded above the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the . His survival beyond the approximate "three-month" prognosis generated some controversy. Their son witnessed a fireball engulfing his home from a neighbour's garage, where he had been repairing his sister's bicycle. It was heartbreaking. Syracuse University Libraries' Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, part of the Special Collections Research Center, is sponsoring a public lecture on Friday, Oct. 21, from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library, Room 114. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. It was just a case of moving on then, but in years since it was something that bothered me. The Connells had even asked to take dad in to the warm but were told they couldnt because evidence was still being collected. Mum had been so worried about him dying alone in the cold of the Scottish countryside. [50] Jalil claimed to possess "documents that prove [his allegations] and [that he is] ready to hand them over to the international criminal court. When the disaster occurred, Bells Glasgow desk contained files of all the cases he was working on. The fuselage of the aircraft was reconstructed by air accident investigators, revealing a 20-inch (510mm) hole consistent with an explosion in the forward cargo hold. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was said to be the "third conspirator" behind the downing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. Laurie, 49, says: Mum called Hugh and Margaret. The purchaser was, on Mr Gauci's evidence, a Libyan. [81] One of the issues concerned a number of documents that were shown before the trial to the prosecution, but were not disclosed to the defence. [23] The explosion in the aircraft hold was magnified by the uncontrolled decompression of the fuselage - a large difference in pressure between the aircraft's interior and exterior. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. October 2015: Two more suspects linked to Libya investigated. 49:41. The scholars mission is to keep the memory of the victims alive, to perform acts of community service, including organizing an annual Remembrance Week on campus, and to raise awareness about terrorism. All 259 people on board were killed, and 11 individuals on the ground also died. Mohammed al-Alagi, justice minister for the new leadership in Tripoli, said "the council would not allow any Libyan to be deported to face trial in another country Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has already been judged once, and will not be judged again. Dark Elegy is the work of sculptor Suse Lowenstein of Long Island, whose son Alexander, then 21, was a passenger on the flight. Theres a saying that the dead are still with us as long as someone speaks their name, Turman said. In addition, the university annually awards 35 scholarships to seniors to honour each of the 35 students killed. Some relatives of the dead, including Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire, believe the bomb was planted at Heathrow Airport, and not sent via feeder flights from Malta, as per the US and UK governments. Investigations were soon launched in the United . The rear fuselage of the plane, where many of them sat, destroyed one of the houses of Rosebank Crescent, 71 Park Place, the home of Lockerbie resident Ella Ramsden, who survived. We have sweaters that my uncle bought for our family in perfect condition still, she said, because those women took the time to care, which is absolutely unbelievable.. It offered us so much comfort to know that he had been looked after.. Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody. [137], A civil action against Libya continued until 18 February 2005 on behalf of Pan Am and its insurers, which went bankrupt partly as a result of the attack. Al-Megrahi was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. On Dalkamoni's account bombs made by Khreesat were at large somewhere. The nose cone landed a few miles away in a field opposite a church, images of which would become an iconic testament to the tragedy. We cannot say that it is impossible that the clothing might have been taken from Malta, united somewhere with a timer from some source other than Libya and introduced into the airline baggage system at Frankfurt or Heathrow. BBC interview of Dr. Hans Kchler, "Judgement on the scope of Megrahi's second appeal", "Secret talks on deal to return Megrahi to Libya", "Lockerbie: Megrahi appeal will not be heard until next year", "Timeline: Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi and the Lockerbie bombing", Summary of the opinion of the court in appeal by Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against Her Majesty's Advocate. A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S . Their brother Frank decided his children, both under 10, were too young. Lord Sutherland, sitting with two other judges, listened as Mr Topp described how at 7.02pm he first noticed a radar abnormality with Pan Am flight 103. [citation needed], Prominent among the passenger victims was the 50-year-old UN Commissioner for Namibia (then South West Africa), Bernt Carlsson, who would have attended the signing ceremony of the New York Accords at the UN headquarters the following day. Eladia Slade. One theory suggests the bomb on the plane was detonated by radio. Published Lockerbie bombing suspect Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi appeared in federal court in Washington, DC, on Monday, December 12. Examination of the baggage containers revealed that the container nearest the hole had blackening, pitting, and severe damage, indicating a "high-energy event" had taken place inside it. And Government files kept secret until now reveal that security service agents thought the families were getting organised and needed careful watching. "Later US intelligence officials confirmed that members of the group had been monitoring Pan Am's facilities at Frankfurt airport. And its still happening.. The work consists of 43 nude statues of the wives and mothers who lost a husband or a child. And another generation will be poised to keep the memories alive. They believed he must have died horrifically in the appalling devastation of the main fuselage crash site in Lockerbie where most of the passengers were found. [63], Megrahi served just over 10 years of his sentence (beginning 5 April 1999),[64] first in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow, and later in Greenock prison, Renfrewshire, throughout which time he maintained that he was innocent of the charges against him. Megrahi's lawyer Maggie Scott expressed dismay at the delays: "There is a very serious danger that my client will die before the case is determined. Pan Am flight 103, also called Lockerbie bombing, flight of a passenger airliner operated by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, after a bomb was detonated. For almost 30 years, a police officer who witnessed the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing has been haunted by a single incident from a night of horror. When he got news of the crash, he made his way to Lockerbie near midnight and was placed in charge of an area called Sector B. Corrections? Mothers and fathers, grandparents, children as young as 2 months old, and college students returning home from a study abroad program lost their lives in what was the largest terrorist attack in American history until 9/11. [65], In October 2015, Scottish prosecutors announced that they wanted to interview two Libyan nationals, whom they had identified as new suspects, over the bombing. Another 11 people died when the wreckage fell onto the Scottish town which gave the atrocity its name. Many of them come up here for Remembrance Week. As many as 25 homes were destroyed. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Steven was laid to rest with his brother and sister in a Lockerbie graveyard. That was a tall order, considering that assisting federal crime victims at all was a fairly new concept. In total, 4 million pieces of wreckage were collected and registered on computer files. About 7:00 pm on December 21, Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 en route to New York City from London, exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The people of the town washed, dried, and ironed every piece of clothing that was found once the police had determined they were of no forensic value, so that as many items as possible could be returned to the relatives. [126] Following the Lockerbie verdict in 2001 and the appeal in 2002, attempts have been made to re-open the case amid allegations that Libya was framed. Pan Am 103's casualties included 11 victims in the Scottish town of Lockerbie, who were struck by falling wreckage. [15], On its arrival at Heathrow Terminal 3 on the day of the disaster, the passengers and their luggage (as well as an unaccompanied suitcase which was part of the interline luggage on the feeder flight) were transferred directly to Clipper Maid of the Seas, whose previous flight had originated in Los Angeles and arrived via San Francisco. [161] This play has received the Silver Medal from the Onassis International Playwriting Competition and the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 'To hide it, he (Khadafy) did everything in his power to get al-Megrahi back from Scotland,' Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying."[148]. (AP photo), George Stobbs was the senior police inspector with the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary when the disaster occurred. The Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet over Lockerbie. "[86], On 25 July 2009, Megrahi applied to be released from jail on compassionate grounds. The bombing, believed to be carried out by Libyan intelligence officers in retaliation for U.S. actions against then-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was a transformative event for the FBI, one that changed the way the Bureau investigates terrorism and assists victims of crimes. The Scots provided transportation from the airport, and Dutch authorities quickly ushered a couple hundred family members through customs, many leaving their baggage behind in the rush. . There would be four groups of two, so that would be eight, in the morning, and it would change at lunchtime, so it would be around 16 volunteers coming in every day to start with, said Elma Pringle. In 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. The Sorrow Over Lockerbie (Flight 103) 747 Crash Bomb Pan Am. He also said there was no evidence to link Libya with the April 1984 shooting of police officer Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London. Showing Editorial results for pan am flight 103. Also aboard was Irish Olympic sailor Peter Dix[29] and rock musician Paul Jeffreys and his wife. Instead, the judges announced on January 30 that the verdict would be read the next day at 11 a.m. Turman raced out of the courtroom. "[citation needed], "Flight 103" redirects here. So we had to figure out how to make the trial accessible to everyone.. This year marks the 30th anniversary. A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in December 1988 is now in US custody, authorities in the United States and . "[135], Another top legal firm in the US, Speiser Krause, which represented 60 relatives, of whom half were UK families, concluded contingency deals securing them fees of between 28 and 35% of individual settlements. [128][129], On 29 September 1989, President Bush appointed Ann McLaughlin Korologos, former Secretary of Labor, to chair the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism (PCAST) to review and report on aviation security policy in the light of the sabotage of flight PA103. His mother, Elizabeth . Terrorism impacts all kinds of people, and its very personal and long lasting, said Kathryn Turman, the FBIs Victim Services Division assistant director. Hed taken off his jacket and removed his shoes, like he always did when he was travelling by plane.