LOCKERBIE - SCOTLAND

On my way to Edinburgh we drove direction Glasgow along a beautiful landscape all the long of the highway. But then our guide told us that here pieces of the Pan Am Airplane that had crashed on Lockerbie, were spread kilometers wide all over the hills.

Lockerbie  is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, it lies approximately 121 km (75 miles) from Glasgow. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight.

Lockerbie  is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, it lies approximately 121 km (75 miles) from Glasgow. The town came to international attention in December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight.

On December 21, 1988, a suitcase bomb exploded aboard New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103, killing all 259 passengers and crewmembers, along with 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. Only one suspect, a Libyan intelligence agent, was ever convicted in connection with the attack, and much mystery still surrounds it.

Meanwhile, down below in the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland, residents found themselves directly in the path of falling plane debris. When the fuel-laden wings and a section of the main body crashed into one house, the subsequent explosion created a 47 km (155 foot) long crater and sent a fireball shooting up into the sky. One policeman compared it later to the mushroom cloud from a miniature atomic bomb. The couple that owned the house died, as did nine neighbors ranging in age from 10 to 82. Homes up to 69 m (75 yards) away lost their roofs, and those even further from the blast had their doors and windows shattered. Pieces of the plane came down elsewhere in Lockerbie as well, causing dozens of fires to break out.

So that had been apparently the first attack and that in 1988 ! I had completely forgotten, so had the others in my bus. But then some of them remembered a bit and one had even been in Lockerbie.

Besides a memorial and a yearly Remembrance ceremony there is no trace anymore of this terrible incident at least that was what I have been told. 



A little rest before the road to Glasgow



Near Lockerbie













Such beautiful Landscapes





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