The wrecked plane which blew apart over Lockerbie 36 years ago is still lying in a scrapyard – after a new Sky drama about the 1988 terror attack, starring Colin Firth, started streaming yesterday.
Aerial photos taken today show the mangled remains of Pan Am flight 103 lying in a corner of a Lincolnshire scrapyard. The distinctive blue and white Pan Am livery is still visible, along with the window holes in the side of the plane.
Policemen stand near the wreckage of the 747 Pan Am airliner.
(Image: ROY LETKEY / AFP) (Photo by ROY LETKEY/AFP via Getty Images.)
The aircraft was transferred to Windleys Salvage in Tattershall, which specialises in salvaging air crashes, by eight lorries from an army base at Longtown near Carlisle after being carefully examined after the attack.
The crumbling plane parts have now sat behind the high fence for nearly four decades. The Boeing 747 was en route from Heathrow to JFK when a bomb exploded in its hold on December 21, 1988, while flying over the small Scottish town on Lockerbie.
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It is the worst ever terror attack on British soil and killed 270 people, including 43 British citizens and 190 Americans. Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas.
The passengers included 35 Syracuse University students participating in a study abroad program. Colin Firth stars in new drama, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, on Sky Atlantic.
Firth portrays Dr Jim Swire, who tragically lost his daughter Flora in the event, and has pursued justice with his wife Jane ever since. The limited five-episode series focuses on Swire’s search for justice over three decades.
The show is based on the book, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph, which was published in 2021.
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