Pan Am flight 103 (Lockerbie Bombing) - DISASTER BREAKDOWN
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- Nearly 30 years ago to the day on December 21st 1988, a bomb exploded on a Pan Am flight between London and New York Killing a total of 270 people.
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My dad's best friend died on this flight. I was in the backseat as he drove him to Frankfurt. He had missed the flight the day before and Pan Am rebooked him gratis so he could be home for Christmas.
May he rest in peace
Every single passenger relative has a tragic story.
@@KONAMAN100 🙄
So sad
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The creepiest thing I ever heard about this disaster is that people were found clutching the grass, meaning they survived to the ground only to die moments after. Nobody should have to die so tragically. Very sad, RIP to all those lost
You sure that wasn't the victims on the ground? At their altitude a regular explosive decompression would be lethal even without a bomb.
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td yes it’s true and no it’s not necessarily lethal.
You would never survive the fall. Instant death, there would be no moments of clutching grass
@@chriswilson8062 I wouldn't make this shit up, especially over an incident so horrific. This is an excerpt I found from one of the rescue responders on site: "But there was worse. A girl in her early twenties, sitting in the aisle seat next to her boyfriend. The grass around her seat was torn. Not by the impact, but by her fingers.
"I could see where she had clawed it, scrabbling, digging in the dirt. She had been alive when she hit the ground.""
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td the plane suffered explosive decompression 6 miles up. This is a paragraph of info I found on the event from first responders and the investigation team: "The bomb caused the plane to decompress six miles above land. You cannot breathe at that height. Any passengers blown into the sky would have fallen unconscious.
It would have taken approximately two-and-a-half minutes to reach the ground. Within the first minute-and-a-half, they would have reached breathable air.
THE one minute of oxygen starvation was not enough to kill. So many regained consciousness before they hit the ground."
The image of the broken cockpit always gives me goosebumps. Great vid
I was concerned that I should see one of the dead pilots in the window!
Every time I see that cockpit I can’t help but feel “man, that nearly seemed survivable for the cockpitcrew”.
Ofcourse I know with those forces, I know that’s not true at all, but it looks so relatively intact compared to the rest.
I felt the same, I thought "eh, someone could have lived through that" (in the cockpit)
Reading a book years ago it was claimed the cockpit crew and passengers would of probably come back around on the way down when they entered "breathable air" a horrific thought
@@vincitveritas3872 And also that a few passengers that were isolated from the fuselage and in free fall, were still alive after hitting the ground. Some were found with grass in their hands, presumably grabbing it trying to move what was left of themselves to safety. Haunting.
@@thesupersaiyann5424 yes. In book by MC Mullen I think it was called 'Chinnok'
@@blwhite1971 what is the name of this documentary?
The Lockerbie bombing was very bad publicity for Pan Am that the airline went completely bankrupt in the next three years.
The mismanagement of the airline in the form of not implementing the "baggage reconciliation" was an additional factor. Pan Am would be flying today with more modern planes if they prioritizes safety over profit.
@@MultiJames95 The name still exists, but it's a railway company.
Flew Pan Am from Texas to Europe for our honeymoon in 1990. The first class service was incredible. But, there are many once successful airlines that no longer exist, that I flew in back in the day (TWA, Eastern, etc). Airline travel today is a far cry from what it was in the 70's, 80's and even 90's. I haven't researched, but I suppose more than one airline has gone under or been absorbed into another company as the result of a disaster involving loss of life.
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If Pan Am did prioritize baggage reconciliation then, of course, the Lockerbie bombing would not have happened and the airline would still be around today. Imagine Pan Am with a fleet of A380s, 787s and 777s...
@@helenwilliams7065 You are right. The air travel of today (prior to COVID) was a far cry from back in the day; it was better. Cheaper, more convenient, and most importantly, SAFER. Not only are the crews better trained, but there are better security measures. Also, no more smoking on flights.
This is higher quality than most professional documentaries. Can’t believe I stumbled across this gem of a channel with only 600 subs!! Keep up the AMAZING work I can tell you put so much effort into these:)
agreed. the view count on these videos is just confusing to me. should be much much more. such a great channel im happy to have found.
Deserves way more subs
this comment aged well
No he only has 56K subs as of now
@@indiaviation3424 What you say no for?
32 years ago today. RIP.
I flew Frankfurt-London with that plane 6 weeks prior of the incident (my first flight). You cannot imagine how old everything was. During taxi the flight attendants opened and closed the rear door several times to make sure it was tight (I was sitting in the last row exactly beside that door). Then we had to leave the runway again for one engine not being possible to start. After 45 minutes the captain announced to have to try another starting sequence of the engines. When that worked the captain said: "Don't worry. We'll make it to London and from there to Houston. And then the airline hopefully will discard that piece of scrap". When I heard from the bombing 6 weeks later and the first announcement "The rear door having been found in a distance of some miles away" I thought that "The piece of scrap" had disintegrated itself in the air.
I remember reading one of the first books about the job of Pan Am stewardess "Glamour and Turbulence", and the author was saying the same thing about how old their aircrafts were.
They found proof of a bomb. Maybe the aircraft was old and worn out as well, but the evidence of bombing was there.
Just like some people made fake videos to accuse Georges W. Bush of 9 /11. Even if the aircraft is old, there was evidence of a bomb.
Most aircraft will do that when blown up, has absolutely nothing to do with the age of the aircraft. Most GA aircraft are 50+ years old and just as safe to fly as they were when they rolled out of the factory. This kind of ignorance is a tad insulting to those of us keeping the world flying, and I'd say the same thing to the pilot who made those announcements.
@@russellmillett5642 My God, what a conceit: to fly around on rusty trash cans and think of them as royal thrones!🙄🙄🙄🧐
35 Syracuse University students were on board returning home for Christmas. One of the most haunting news images from JFK airport was the mother of one of the students falling to the ground wailing saying "My Baby! My Baby!"
There’s a RUclips video containing that clip somewhere. I saw it a few years ago and it’s stayed with me ever since. One of the most horrifying things I’ve ever heard/seen.
That woman who was wailing was Jeannine Boulanger. Her daughter, musical theater major Nicole Elise, was among the Syracuse Fallen 35.
I remember seeing that on TV.Never forgot it.
@@MultiJames95 Sadly Nicole's remains were among the 17 that were never found. She had been sitting near the wing section which crashed on Sherwood Crescent.
Something thats worth noting is its been reported by first responders (residents of Lockerbie and the nearby area) and backed up by autopsies of the victims is that at least 2 people were reportedly found alive after the accident but died due to the Scottish elements (Probably a fatal dose of hypothermia and shock) A woman reported that she went to investigate a loud bang and saw in a field some debris, and what looked like a person crawling, she ran to get help but by the time paramedics and police got there the person was found elsewhere, his corpse was grabbing the grass. A coroner did a post mortem on the person (Who I believe was male) and found his only injury was a broken leg, but nothing that would be fatal. This does not mean this story is true as you should take it with a grain of salt, but it is likely several people in the forward part of the cabin did survive the impact, possibly by being ejected from the aircraft and somehow slowing their descent or by an unexplained miracle/ sheer luck like Vesna Vulović
It is very possible, it was December and considering what people wear on a plane (one or two thin layers) you wouldn't last long if injured and already weak.
It's not inconceivable. There were stories about bomber crewmembers surviving in flight breakups @21,000ft when their planes were shot down. Sure they were mangled but they recovered.
Probably a lot of unsurvivable internal trauma
Never heard that particular story before but it is well known that a few passengers could have survived. It was just unfortunate that the elements and their location hampered this. It's been documented before that some passengers found strapped into their seats still had a faint pulse.
There is eyewitness accounts that 2 or 3 people were alive after impact but died soon after. Rumours are that a few people said a few words to the locals that found them but died very quickly afterwards. The pathologist who done the post mortems stated that a few people had injuries that may have been compatible with life. An air hostess found next to the cockpit section was apparently still breathing when found and another passenger had clumps of mud and grass in their hands which were firmly clamped when found. That person was alive after impact.
Horrifying loss of innocent life that day.
Most terrorism involves loss of innocent life.
What's more dangerous is the 9/11 that came 13 years after this this.
I remember driving up the A74 going home to Scotland for Christmas and for miles around Lockerbie, there was wreckage strewn on both sides of the road. I worked in the aviation industry at the time and seeing the zinc chromate (it's sprayed on the inner sides as a corrosion inhibitor and has a distinct colour) showing on the inner side of the wreckage brought it home - hard.
One weird thing about this incident - 5 years later, a UK television soap (Emmerdale) decided to revamp their image and get rid of a lot of their main characters by having a plane crash in the village. This caused some outrage at the time because there were some parallels to the Lockerbie bombing, including the fact it was aired about the same time of the year that the disaster happened.
I was a 12 year old kid at the time. My parents had a US tenants that were due to be on this flight but missed their connection...One delay I am sure they will be grateful for forever
One of the things I still find strange about this disaster is that they set the timer so "early". If the bombers would have set it three hours later, the plane would have definitly, without any doubt, exploded over the middle of the Atlantic, thus making it very difficult to find the cause...
the plane was late taking off from heathrow so it was still over land when the bomb exploded.
@@richardmachin2995 The plane was 30mins late taking off so yes if it had taken off on time would have exploded over the Atlantic which is what the terrorists wanted.
@@amsmith123 it's a myth that it was late. Pan Am 103 was the 6pm flight. The plane left the gate just after 6pm. Therefore the flight was on time not late as myths suggest.
But if Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Atlantic imagine how much money and resources it would take to recover the wreck. A year before the Lockerbie bombing South African Airways Flight 295 crashed deep into the Indian Ocean and the wreck wasn't found until next year.
@@VRTrucker If this is true I might also add another reason why it was set so early. So the terrorists could lay claim to the act. That often seems to be a motive behind why they make their attacks as eventful as possible- so people remember and know it was them who committed the act.
If you down a plane over the Atlantic, doing that becomes a lot harder. (All this is operating under the assumption that it was indeed on time and was deliberately set to explode over land.)
I was 15 years old when this happened. I was so very sad as this should never have happened. This happened within days before Christmas. Rest in peace to the 259 on board and to the 11 on the ground who died that day. I also used that boombox
It was perfect disguise. A semtex inside a electronic device, would be hard to distinguish if you dont open it.
1988 was a bad year in general, Clapham Rail Disaster, Lockerbie, Piper Alpha to name but a few. So very tragic all round.
@@louisewright1031 then 1989 brought Kegworth plane crash, Hillsborough, the Marchioness. The 1980’s was an awful time for disasters.
@@louisewright1031 you also forgot the Comair crash as well
@@novanoir8309 exactly. Why didn't the aviation world learn from the Air India flight 182 terrorist that happened in 85 which is almost similar to the Lockerbie bombing?
I photograph cemeteries as a hobby. This past week, I came across a grave in a local cemetery in Maryland for one of the passengers of this flight. A memorial for the disaster was etched on the stone.
If you go to Arlington cemetery they have a cairn monument to 103
Television star David White's son died on this plane. He was Darren's boss (Larry Tate) on the sitcom Bewitched. I left this comment under yours because I learned this from a guy who visits the graves of famous people. His son's "remains" are next to his in the mausoleum. Thanks for your comment. Take care!
Honestly it just baffles me that somebody could kill hundreds of innocent lives...
*RIP to every passenger on board* 🕊
It happened cause of Iran Air 655 shootdown. When a US Navy ship USS Vincennes shot the innocent plane
Islam, happens daily
God I remember how horrified I was after reading about that plane bombing. That was the first real moment I really got a sense of how terrible an act of terrorism could be.
same 😒i remember thinking it was the worst thing i'd ever heard. i was young, but felt so bad. i always felt sorry for the plane as well as everyone on it - the plane would never have wanted to crash and kill everyone 😢
Could you imagine being on one of those other planes then later learning that bomb was also on board w/you, but didn’t go off yet?
May the 270 victims of this tragedy RIP 🥀
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Omar and Tlab are idiots. I understand that Israel has employed draconian measures to prevent terrorism, but they're hardly an evil country.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are incredibly courageous American politicians who have spoken up against the abuses of the US and Israeli governments and who have NOTHING to do with the Lockerbie bombing. Opposing the US and Israeli governments and being terrorist sympathizers are NOT the same thing.
@@twistedyogert Omar and Tlaib are heroes and Israel is an evil fascist apartheid state to its very core. Just ask a Palestinian living under their occupation.
I’d feel so baffled confused sad or even grievances because it’s just so bad and I can’t pull my finger around the fact that I could have died
the picture of the broken nose section lying on the ground is just so sad...
I’ll be honest. I’m American, born in 2001.
I’ve heard of the references to bombing growing up, but never looked up any information on it.
I always thought the IRA was behind it and that the flight origin was Ireland.
I now feel rather silly for associating this tragedy with the completely incorrect conflict.
I think for a long time, young me confused Ireland and Scotland.
Which is rather embarrassing.
Personally I find my incorrect assumptions to be kinda disrespectful to the victims.
Thank you for correcting my error.
Having drove to Lockerbie to the area proper, It's absolutely shocking how widespread the damage on the ground was.
I knew an exchange student on the plane his name was Christopher Bessette I believe he was about 17 I was working as a porter handyman in Hartsdale and lived in a building he lived up the street and another building in the village of Hartsdale with his parents he used to cash my check for me in the bank and I did not have an account used to do it as a favor for me and the last time I saw him when he was leaving he told me he was going to England as an exchange student it was late August that year I happen to be outside when he was passing and he stopped and told me JP I made arrangements so you can keep getting your check cashed on till I come back in December little did I realize it would be the last time I seen him I went to his funeral tragic mind-numbing that someone would put a bomb on a plane and kill innocent people for money
How tragic! He sounded like such a nice guy. How awful that must have been when you heard about the crash. May he rest in peace.
Man do I remember this when it happened. So heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome video once again, I clicked when I saw this in my subscription feed immediatly. Very informative and very fitting, seeing that the 30th anniversary of this tragedy is looming upon us in the next couple of weeks. High quality content as always and I can't wait to see more!
On a side note, if you ever have the time, I suggest you do PSA Flight 182 and Japan Airlines Flight 123 in the future. Thank you again for the awesome content!
Fnn muzzles!
I think I read that Pan Am 103 was delayed in leaving. If it left on time, the plane would have blown-up over the ocean, making retrieving all that physical evidence (the radio, clothing, suitcase, etc.) probably impossible. If the plane was delayed even more, it's possible the plane would have exploded before leaving Heathrow. The casualty count would have been less, or possibly zero.
finding that would not be impossible. Just a question of worth looking. Things have pulled from the ocean before.
These are just little tidbits, but it was a myth the plane left late. It left on or close to its 6pm schedule. The 6:25pm take off is often cited as proof of late departure, but for this time in the evening, 25 minutes would be within normal taxi time. If it was a pressure based bomb, as most were, I'm guessing it would not have gone off before reaching a planned trigger altitude.
roachtoasties.......Please read the following extracts from my post above:
Immediately following the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by state-of-the-art US$3 billion Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988, the justifiably incensed Iranians ‘contracted’ the Ahmed Jibril-led PFLP-GC [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command] to carry out revenge attacks on 5 American airplanes.
A payment of US$10 million was agreed with Jibril for the attacks*. [This action was code-named ‘Operation Intekam’ - which means ‘equal and just revenge’ in English]. The targets were to be on major American commercial airline operators with flights originating in Europe and to various destinations in the U.S. The Iranian's motivation was pure revenge and to fulfill the promise that the skies would "rain blood."
[*there is expository evidence of this ’contract’: As part of their surveillance, the Israeli intelligence service MOSSAD, allegedly intercepted phone calls from Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur [Ayatollah Mohtashemi], the Iranian Interior Minister in Tehran, to the chargé d'affaires at the Iranian embassy in Beirut. During their conversations Mohtashemi-Pur instructed the embassy to hand over the funds to Ahmed Jibril - and in a later call, to pass on congratulations to the PFLP-GC on the success of blowing up PanAm103].
The PFLP-GC's leading bomb-makers Ahmed Jibril, Abu Nidal and Marwen Khreesat - always preferred barometric [air pressure] timers which could be set to a specific altitude. This was usually around 30,000ft - the normal cruising altitude of commercial aircraft. The bomb onboard PanAm103 detonated at 31,000ft.
This documentary is utter nonsense and to claim that a bomb could be introduced onto an aircraft in Malta which would then end up on PanAm103 in London - having cleared THREE separate airport security checks [Malta, Frankfurt and Heathrow] is pure tosh.
Bomb-makers are not idiots. Their objectives are clear - to blow-up their 'target' and cause the maximum amount of death and carnage. So to use a conventional 'chronological' timed device [especially at not only the busiest time of year for air travel but during the most unpredictable weather conditions where it is highly probable that you would incur lengthy delays] is sheer lunacy.
Air India 182 was solved anyway despite exploding over the Atlantic.
@@wildwest1832 yeah they pulled 2 DH.106 comets out of the sea
Thank you for a very even handed account of events. I remember that night well. I was the on call surgeon in the second nearest hospital. We prepared the hospital for a major accident and even mobilised a medical team to go to the site. The wind locally was so bad that the helicopter sent to collect them struggled to land. In the end our services were not needed. A profoundly sad and shocking event.
Denice O'Neill, age 21, was on Pan Am Flight 103. She lived across the hall from me at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and used to come over and watch TV in the evenings with me and my roommates. She was a pre-med student and was returning to the U.S. after working for two and a half months at a hospital in Nigeria. She was in seat 38K.
Best explainer under 1 mil subs!
Enough info, no bias, and to the point. Excellent work!
Interesting fact: John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) was supposed to be on this flight along with his wife.
So were the Four Tops following their European tour.
So was Kim Cattrall of Sex & the City.
Hard to believe this was the work of one guy.
yeah he probably had others working with him
You mean the scapegoat? There was no evidence he did it.
Probably funded by Gaddafi. The guy was funding every anti-western organization that was willing to work with him. He hated Europe.
Great work, sir. The back story, technical explanations, etc are excellent and I have now subscribed. This was such a tragedy and consumed the news at the time. RIP to those that perished and thank God that there wasn't even more loss of life on the ground. So sad that the name, Lockerbie, will always conjure up images of this disaster.
Very well put together. I have seen several videos of this tragedy and this was one of the best I have seen. Thanks from Australia and rip all who lost their lives.
love your videos, very clear and well-explained. you deserve so much more attention.
That day I was on duty at FRA Airport..i talked to few of the passengers boarding for NYC.
When I heard later about the Desaster i was traumatized for a long time..so many lives lost...
damn bro thats just so sad, i would be mentally scarred for life I was in that position
brilliant video so sad ,may the 270 victims rest in peace.
269*
@@edwardmarcusgibson4034 11:36
@@andricode take a joke
@@edwardmarcusgibson4034 You seemed confused by the victim count, so i helped you, you're welcome
Another great vid..... I love your style of not over hyping these tragic events and that you stick to researched detail 👍👍
@Scott Smith.....The film-maker's 'research' is abysmal at best and the central thrust of his/their presentation is utter nonsense.
@Scott Smith.....This documentary video is most certainly NOT 'researched' - nor accurate! It is a total dereliction of factual evidence and proven testimony - targeted at the ignorant, misguided and uninformed.
This channel is amazing, I have been watching these videos non stop and they are amazing. It shows everything in a easy to understand way.
Same. Found it a few days ago & have been binge watching when I can every since. He deserves many more subs. 💙
@@heatherhent4445 ....Why? This video is utter nonsense and extremely poorly researched [at best!]
to make this even worse, the Lockerbie Bomber was released in 2009, only 8 1/2 into a 27 year minimum life sentence. an absolute miscarriage of justice. He was diagnosed with cancer and given three months to live, which was the deciding factor for his release. he ended up living for two years as a free man before dying.
Apparently he tried to clear his name in that time, that could count for something
Fantastic video! Keep up the good work!
I’m so glad I stumbled upon your videos. The quality is amazing! I hope you start getting the attention you deserve!
When I start thinking about how rotten people are in this world, I remind myself about the people of Lockerbie. Their town had been destroyed. Their neighbors were killed or injured. They had to see the horror up close. And to that tragedy they responded amazingly.
They set their grief aside and opened their homes to grieving families of victims. And they made sure that any remains they found were treated with dignity and respect. They even fed and hoysed members of the media there covering the disaster. As is sometimes the case, the very worst of humanity brought out the best of humanity. It is an example we all should emulate. Maybe there would be less hate in the world if we did.
Excellent narration by this gentleman! I am flabbergasted that he has received only 53 likes. There was a lot of work put into this video. Thank you sir! I subscribed.
Bill Callahan ........Possibly because the entire documentary is a crock of shit?
@@thesoultwins72 Keen to hear why?
Most people who like something don't hit like, only the minority do. Now, if you want a mystery, why on earth do a few people thumb-down the most simple, useful fact videos that simply don't have any actual scope to be "liked" or "disliked" (can't think of an example at the moment but I've seen plenty) - baffles me!
@@mobilephil244 Well Mobile Phil, I just "liked" yours. Sometimes I'm in a quandary whether to like or dislike so I don't do anything. Many times though, I like a video because I can see the work that went into it.
@@metasphere5017............Please read my comment above.
Sometime in the 80s, our cinemas showed an Italian film, it was called "New Ghosts". It was several stories. One of them was about how a guy asks a flight attendant on a date, spends a night with her, during which the radio wins for them..
In the morning, just before the flight, the guy presents a cassette player with a night tune to the flight attendant as a souvenir. Then, a few moments later, the guy watches the news on TV, where they report that a tragedy has happened. The plane became the target of a terrorist attack, it crashed after the explosion of a planted bomb.
Tbh this channel is way better than the flight channel with millions of subs keep up the good work mate u will reach millions for ur work too
Both Iran Air and this were complete tragedies.
I remember Lockerbie. I was 7 and it came over the news on TV. We lived about 40 miles further north than Lockerbie
keep making videos man! even without many subs this channel is fucking incredible and I hope there will be new content!!
Finding this video now gives me chills. My mother's cousin was on this plane. I had no idea until i reached out and started a conversation with her. RIP to all those lost
Why won't just London Heathrow check the bags anyway? Did Panam issue an alert for every airport to check the baggage? This shouldn't have been possible!
One of the greatest videos and with deep technical analysis!!!!!ctgs
Sadly if 103 incident never happened, Pan Am would’ve fallen due to the gas shortage, deregulation, National Airlines merger, and Gulf war.
RIP to the victims
How did the Gulf War cause Pan Am to go down?
Oil prices as Saddam Hussein was burning oil fields
@@vincitveritas3872 Wow, Saddam was a d*ck.
I’ve watched a few of these on ur channel in fact I’m just after watching ai182 dissater breakdown I’ve now subscribed and if u get members I wil join I love the clarity of ur explanations young fella
Amazing work! Thank you.
As a letter carrier for the USPS, I delivered mail to the mother of a young lady who perished aboard this flight.
A small personal connection of mine to this tragedy.
Always upvote a Postie. Thanks for what you do.
Great videos! You deserve a million subs!
I doubt the “bombeat” radio was a coincidence.
One of the final nails in the coffin for Pan Am, shame such a huge company who's standards and practices are still seen today in other companies
I can't help but believe that Iran was involved. In July of 1988, Iran Air flight 655 was mistakenly shot down by the American guided missile cruiser Vincennes. All 290 people on board died.
A lot of people believe that, including most Scots who were furious at how quickly London and Washington pinned the blame on Gaddafi before the investigation was even started.
That accident shouldn't have happened, the captain of the cruiser was itching to fire on something. Even the captain of the carrier wouldn't launch fighter's to check as he feared for his aviators safety. Everything the captain said like the plane was headed down towards them was proven false by other warship's in the area, but like he said that's a video on it's own.
@@arohk1579 they were in Iranian waters, too. Just awful all the way around.
@@homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541 that they were, I won't condone the action's of Iran if they in fact ordered the bombing, but if I were in that Government's shoe's I would want revenge as well. Attacking a U.S. warship could lead to war but a few radical terrorist's taking out an American plane is much harder to prove where the strike originated. Given the fact the crew were given medal's and no one was held accountable in the Iranian people's eyes they got away with murder. I need to watch his video on that to see how he covered it, I've seen and read some good thing's on that incident and it doesn't put the ship's Captain and crew in a good light.
My old high school had a scholarship in one of the victims' names. I was awarded it when I graduated (my chorus teacher nominated me for it, much to the disgust of the drama teacher who hated my guts).
Chloe, I don't even know if you will read this comment as it is such an old video, but I've been binge watching most of your videos. I started from the most recent ones, and ive found myself getting to these ones. Something I've noticed, your voice sounds much happier and soothing now. And i found myself being happy for your current self. I do hope you are as free as your voice sounds now. ❤
Chloe - i was watching another of your videos last night when you mentioned your Lockerbie video. You said you were thinking about re-recording the Lockerbie disaster with the longer format & you asked for feedback.
I’d love to watch you do a deeper dive into Lockerbie. I hope you will consider it; I suspect a lot of people will be interested in watching.
My uncle was supposed to be on this flight. His flight from Nairobi Kenya was delayed and he missed this flight.
High Quality study. Thank you. And. Congratulations. Keep on going.
Great job with the video. Subscribed.
Thank you very much for your work, I like your videos.
I want to say God bless you to all of the families affected by this tragedy, I lost my beautiful, smart 19 year old Cousin Pamela Elaine Herbert that terrible night.
Rip
Why didn’t security pick through all suitcases and bags since they had the warning ahead of time…?
Yes thats why Pan Am went bust to along with other reasons.
Not alone were airlines warned they even said an American plane leaving Frankfurt.
Love your videos so much. Research and quality is phenomenal.
This channel deserves so many more subscribers..It’s great 👍
No doubt it will reach 100k some day
That day has come and gone, while the content continues to improve weekly!
Excellent! Thanks.
fantastic content as always.
Well done sir. Thank you.
It's Ma'am!
If Pan Am 103 wasn't 30 minutes late, it would have been over the North Atlantic instead
of Lockerbie. And the evidence would never have been found.
It actually wasn't late. It left the gate at it's scheduled time but the bombers hadn't considered taxi and hold times at Heathrow.
@@randalpmcmurphy1340 O.K Thanks.
They expected it to be over the Atlantic though.
@@randalpmcmurphy1340 it’s also widely believed that they forgot about the time change of 1 hour between FRA and LHR
The Lockerbie bombing was the first terrorist attack in Dumfries and Galloway, the biggest in Scotland, and the largest attack on British soil and history
great channel have watched every air crash episode and am a bit of an avgeek haha stunbled across channel in my recomendations . subbed straight away mate look forward to next video have already watched all . ihave actually been to lockerbie only a couple yeaars after this to the memorial and cemetery was incredibly sad day for scotland
Thank you. I am thrilled you like my videos.
Watching this first time and hearing that the plane flew over my home town of daventry and not long after blew up is shocking to me
I’m actually a bit surprised that there was different terrorist attacks in planes and airports before 9/11, yet it took 9/11 to drastically change the way security worked and get advanced machinery to check each passenger and so much more enforcement was added to keep planes safer. I wonder why they didn’t do that sooner. Not only that but I don’t understand why they don’t have the same method for schools and add much more security to prevent so many school shootings.
During the 9/11 attacks the reason for the hijacking where e.g. knives carried through security, but with Lockerbie the bomb was in the cargo hold. Lockerbie had nothing to do with the lousy security controls that partly caused 9/11
The last woman executed in Canada (1953) was hung for her part in the conspiracy to plant a bomb aboard a flight out of Montreal, Quebec that killed all 24 souls on board. It's hard to believe such sinister acts have gone on as far back as 70 yrs ago.
Yes, of course there were lots of terrorist attacks all over, read up on Air India disaster in the 80’s, hijacking’s were a big thing in 60’s and 70’s. History didn’t start ON 11/9 🙄. Why things changed is because it finally happened to USA, they lost their minds, went to extreme measures and destroyed a few Middle Eastern countries.
Always fear Islam, it’s always Islam
I took the PA 103 flight from Frankfurt to Heathrow 2 days before the bombing. Such a despicable act of terrorism.
Interesting, nice vid
Always found it too "sloppy" that the Libian accused of the bombing apparently just walked into Mary's house and bought random, traceable clothing. Selecting all sorts and getting noticed. Too convenient. Same as the piece of circuitboard. The only "evidence" which stands, though not very sturdy, is that MEBO claims that they only sold this type of circuitboard to Libya.
What immediately drew my attention was how did the store owner recognized Libyan accent? Maltese is related to Arabic, but in a similar way as English is related to German. They're nowhere near mutually intelligible. It's like a British person saying that the accent was Norwegian, and distinctly not Danish, Swedish or Islandic, after a conversation in Spanish. Theoretically possible, but highly unlikely
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼
I visited the main crash site , memorial garden couple of weeks back it is very well kept
RIP
To the passengers and crew of Pan Am Flight 103 and the 11 people on the ground
Excellent!
Man, its crazy how these things survived, especially the freakin shirt
12:04 how about the Iran Air 655 shot down by the US navy? Great channel and production quality! keep up the good work!
Yes,another crime they havent acknowledge.
@@Dee-JayW They did acknowledge it, and paid $130 million in compensation
Amazing what investigators were able to discover and track!
Yes, tracking down the store from fragments of clothing near the explosion. These (and apparently all) accident investigators just do not give up in their search for answers and the truth.
So heartbreaking. 😔
Excellent video. Thank you for the hard work that so obviously went into it. Keep
Your personality really comes out in your later videos. Earlier videos sound abit mundane and flat in comparison. Such are things we learn to develop as we make more and more videos 😊 love your videos!
Excellent video
Remember it happening I was living in Warren Massachusetts so sad...
My uncle was on the other Pan Am flight to California on the same day they took off within hours of each other we actually had the phone on the hotline on tv
Thank you for covering this. I remember it and have always been curious about who did it or what led to it. Not that it helps that poor town or the hundreds of families affected. Still, I love you work!
I was 12 when this bombing taken place, and really concerned about my great grandmother who lived in Annan which is a stones throw from Lockerbie. not truely understanding the planes breakup path at the time. it was truely shocking that it had happened, and the first images on tv news here in the UK was of the cockpit being discovered, and not knowing what had caused the breakup of Pan Am 103, apart from early reports of an explosion, and others saying they could hear the plane screaming towards the ground refering to the rear end of the aircraft. and it was on the 6pm news for a couple of days afterwards as more details were supposidly found.
I used to fly a lot from Honolulu to Boston in the late 80's. One flight I vividly remembering looking at the plane in Honolulu and seeing "Clipper ??????? Of the Seas" on the side of it. My research shows there were only 2 Pan Am planes with those words.
The investigation that went into this attack was beyond belief
My friends husband was one of the lawyers for the victims of this. He is now worth 45 million
@Prime......I guess that you, your friend and her lawyer husband are all American?