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00:14Any time he was off from school,
00:16this would be the place where you would find him.
00:20Walking on the beach fairly early,
00:22I see this tiny little speck out in the water waving.
00:26And lo and behold, it's Alexander out there already.
00:31There he is. There's my brother.
00:33His pride and joy, his surfboard.
00:38There's my mom.
00:39Always laughing, always upbeat.
00:45And that all changed.
00:48That all changed.
00:52Absolutely nothing prepares you for such an event.
00:56It was horrific. Just awful.
01:00I remember being told,
01:02your brother, his plane crashed.
01:09And the fact that it was a bomb,
01:13to me it was like the end of the world.
01:16I believe this would have been...
01:18This came from the wreckage.
01:19The wreckage of the plane.
01:21It's part of his diary.
01:24You see there's some burn holes.
01:27Obviously water damage or whatever.
01:30To have one of your children killed or, as we found out later, murdered in such a fashion is unthinkable.
01:41It was very upsetting for us.
01:43But trying to find out the why of it was paramount.
01:49It became everything.
01:53Pan Am Flight 103 crashed into the Scottish village of Lockerbie.
01:56270 people, most of them Americans.
01:58It was the worst terrorist attack on an airline ever.
02:01We have no knowledge of how this happened.
02:05We're trying to find out.
02:07It was an attack on America.
02:09Ward's crime scene in history.
02:10200,000 pieces of evidence.
02:12My daughter hadn't just died in an accident, but had been brutally murdered.
02:15They killed our children.
02:16They killed our children.
02:17To be lied to for 30 years.
02:19I think the US government had an agenda.
02:21Reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world.
02:25If it's up to our government, we might not ever know the truth.
02:32Nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story.
02:35I was a foreign correspondent for CBS News based in the London Bureau.
02:49It was almost Christmas Eve and everybody else was home for Christmas.
02:54And all of a sudden over the BBC squawk box, we had an audio connection to the BBC newsroom.
03:00A voice said that an American plane had gone off the radar in Lockerbie, Scotland.
03:08I had no idea where Lockerbie was.
03:10I'd never even heard the word.
03:13It's a small town close to the English border.
03:16It was 3,000 people. That's all it was.
03:19The 21st of December 1988 will stay with me forever.
03:32It was three months into my police career.
03:37And I happened to be the youngest recruit in Scotland at the time too.
03:42We were actually plucking turkeys for Christmas.
03:49So we had help and we were all sitting round the table.
03:53It was a dark windy night.
03:56Yeah.
03:57We were sitting watching TV.
04:06And it was three minutes past seven that night.
04:11And I heard this loud noise.
04:18We heard like bang, bang, bang, bang.
04:21We all jumped up, looked out the window.
04:26And there were this bright red flames in the sky.
04:33There was like a great big mushroom ball of fire.
04:37All you could see and the thing just over the hill.
04:39It was just sort of coming out of Lockerbie.
04:41All of a sudden, there was a huge explosion outside.
04:49Everything was in darkness.
04:53So I managed to find a torch.
04:58And there were rubble, there were stones, there were soil.
05:04Oh my God.
05:05Unbelievable.
05:07There were bodies all over the place.
05:10Everywhere.
05:13And I shone the torch on the hedge.
05:16And this young girl was over the hedge.
05:20A line over the hedge.
05:22With one shoe on.
05:23I could always remember that.
05:29Principal fire.
05:31I saw it.
05:36Doctor and I'm going to the choir.
05:37The early video that had come from British news teams showed there was fire everywhere.
05:47So we had to all of a sudden try to figure out what was going on.
05:50And there wasn't a lot of information in those first hours.
05:53People were completely numb and confused.
06:04It didn't initially make any sense.
06:07Doctor and I'm going to the choir.
06:09My first reaction was, oh, it's probably a US fighter jet on a training mission up there.
06:15Because I'd covered those.
06:18Here's stuff lying on the side of the road.
06:20And we had one look and we thought, this has been no military plane.
06:26We could tell.
06:27It must have been a passenger.
06:29We have an unconfirmed report that a Boeing 747 airliner, which left Heathrow at 6 o'clock tonight,
06:381800 hours for JFK airport in New York, has crashed in the Lockerbie area of Dumfreeshire.
06:44We don't know what airline, but the report makes it plain that it is a civilian airliner.
06:51On the television, there was this message about terrible disaster happening in the borders between Scotland and England.
06:58And my wife Jane concluded immediately that my daughter Flora was on that plane.
07:06She was just on the eve of her 24th birthday that year, 1988.
07:21She rang up to ask us if we minded if she went over to America to meet her boyfriend over Christmas.
07:29And of course, not being total ogres, we said, yes, if that's what you want to do.
07:34Everything was booked up, except there were plenty of seats available on a certain flight known as Pan Am 103,
07:44which is why we're talking now.
07:49747, bound from London to New York.
07:53Christ, 10 minutes after takeoff.
07:55There was some type of explosion in midair and the plane broke into several parts.
07:59The radio reported that a Pan American flight had disappeared from radar.
08:04Flight is said to be scattered over a 10-mile wide area.
08:07Flight 103.
08:09Flight 103.
08:11And I said to my mother,
08:14Oh, that's the flight that normally John flies on.
08:18He's going to come home on tomorrow.
08:22John happened to be in London on business.
08:24Every day we would always talk, you know, check in with each other, see how the three kids were getting on.
08:33He had called me first thing on December 21st.
08:37We had talked about preparation for Christmas and the kids, you know, waiting for Santa and Daddy to come home and celebrating our youngest daughter's third birthday.
08:47He made no mention that he was going to be changing his plans and trying to come home early and surprise us.
08:56A gruesome Christmas time disaster tonight.
09:09A quiet Scottish village and inferno of flames after a Pan American jumbo jet homeward bound across the Atlantic went off the radar and went down in the village center.
09:18Now, in our CBS News London bureau at the moment is Anthony Mason. Anthony.
09:24The latest details we have, Dan, are these.
09:27The air traffic controllers at Prestwick in Scotland reportedly spoke to the plane minutes before the crash.
09:34We knew there would be hundreds of Americans on that flight.
09:39Man, it was a Pan Am flight.
09:41Any of us could have been on that flight home for Christmas.
09:45Authorities immediately closed the main road between England and Scotland and dozens of local ambulances were sent in.
09:54They still have several helicopters flying around in the area bringing in casualties.
10:00But so far, as I can make out, these casualties are corpses.
10:05You know, you had Americans who'd been working abroad, who'd been living abroad, who were, you know, it was the holiday, so so many of them were going home for, you know, to see their relatives or families.
10:19But the largest group of Americans on the plane were a group of students from Syracuse University who were coming home from a term abroad.
10:26There were 35 of them.
10:31So that made it even more heartbreaking.
10:40Alexander was a senior at Syracuse.
10:43He was a kid you liked to have because he was funny.
10:47He was very colorful in many ways, very talented in terms of surfing.
10:52And what can I say, he was a great kid.
11:01I was actually working in the studio and the phone rang and it was a friend of his.
11:08She was very hesitant and saying, hi, how are you?
11:11Fine.
11:13Is Alexander home yet?
11:14And I said, no, he's not.
11:16And she said, do you know when he's coming home?
11:19And I said, yes, he's coming home later today.
11:23And she sort of said, what airline?
11:26And I said, it's Pan Am.
11:27And she said the number.
11:29And I said, it's 103.
11:31And she just screamed, haven't you heard?
11:34It went down in a fireball.
11:39And I screamed at her to just never say that again, but I knew.
11:43If you need information about someone who may have been on Pan Am Flight 103, there are a couple of numbers you can call.
11:54The first is toll free.
11:56And it's 1-800.
11:57And there was an 800 number that said, you know, to call that number.
12:02And it was busy, busy.
12:05And then finally I got through.
12:10I said, you know, I've been told my husband was on this flight.
12:14What's his name?
12:15What's his nationality?
12:17And I'm desperate.
12:18You know, I'm saying, why are you asking me all these questions?
12:20I just need to know, was John Cummick on the flight or wasn't he?
12:24And they started taking all this different information.
12:28And they said, well, we really, we can't confirm anything right now.
12:33I said, so you can't confirm if he was on the flight?
12:36You can't confirm that this plane has crashed?
12:40And they said, no, we're just taking information right now.
12:45And I said, how cruel is this?
12:47I said, you know, I have three little children.
13:00Heathrow, I couldn't get through to at all.
13:04And eventually we ended up ringing the Pan Am desk in New York.
13:08They were able to tell us that Flora was on that flight.
13:12And at the same time, you could hear chaos in the background.
13:17And you could hear women screaming.
13:22My baby!
13:26A lot of American families had congregated at JFK Airport to get the latest news on this crash because most of the victims are American.
13:44I was at Syracuse University and one of my roommates leaned in a little bit and said, Lucas, you have to call your parents.
14:04So I called my parents and my dad answered the phone.
14:10And I said, you know, what's going on?
14:14What is it?
14:15And he really just couldn't speak.
14:18He didn't say anything.
14:20And then my mom took the phone from him and she said, your brother, his plane crashed.
14:26Very early on the morning, not long after dawn had broken, we flew out to Lockerbie.
14:43There's an enormous hole in the ground where Pan Am Flight 103 is thought to have made its first contact with the ground.
14:53And on either side of the hole, houses are absolutely shattered.
14:58You can see the trail of devastation wreaked by the 747 as it bounced and burned its way across the town.
15:06Now, the fields here are littered with what are easily as recognisable as parts of the fuselage and wing of the 747.
15:18I've been told that the crew were found strapped in their seats in the cockpit.
15:27Gosh.
15:30So you were one of the first journalists on the ground?
15:33Yeah, it was, you know, an image you just won't forget.
15:39And we were low enough to, you know, to quite clearly see features and see that people were just, you know, sitting out in the grass.
15:48But, of course, they're all dead.
15:50The next morning, very early, we got on a charter plane up north and then drove to Lockerbie.
16:03That image of the nose of the plane, the cockpit, sitting up on a hill in a field.
16:17It's an incredibly distressing thing to see.
16:24It doesn't go away.
16:25It became the enduring symbol of Lockerbie.
16:34All you had to do was see that and understand you were looking at a tragedy.
16:38Generally speaking, 747s don't fall out of the sky.
16:56So, first suspicion was something bad happened to that plane.
17:03The FBI, we had somebody in charge of the investigation.
17:08That was me.
17:10Certainly, this was something that we took seriously and we devoted resources to finding out what happened.
17:18We have a requirement to obtain the very best evidence that we can to allow us to try and find a cause of the accident or if it is an accident.
17:35Scottish police had resources.
17:38They were a very civilized, well-trained, excellent police agency.
17:43Hundreds of police from forces throughout Scotland are now involved in the search for debris.
17:50So, we asked, we would like to work with you, recognizing they are in charge of the investigation.
17:58And the FBI is not used to not being in charge.
18:01I have been appointed as the investigator in charge for this particular accident.
18:05There obviously are a number of potential causes for an in-flight breakup.
18:12We are looking for evidence to try and find the point at which things first started to go wrong.
18:20The big question was, was it structural failure or was it a bomb?
18:25Neither one of those were great answers.
18:28Pan Am Flight 103 began in Frankfurt.
18:32Then, passengers changed planes at Heathrow for the flight on to New York.
18:36Over Lockerbie, the crew went silent.
18:39Before it crashed, Pan Am Flight 103 was on course, on schedule and gave no signal of distress.
18:45The aircraft was flying at a bearing of about 320 degrees, kind of northwest-ish, at 31,000 feet.
18:577.02 in a few seconds, the nose cone rips off the front of the aircraft.
19:03The investigators will want to see if there was any evidence of a sudden cabin depressurization
19:09that could be caused by a massive technical failure or by a bomb explosion.
19:13Whatever happened to this plane may have started about in here, an area of the plane where a cargo hold runs underneath.
19:21At that point, it starts to plummet and dive directly towards the town.
19:28But because it was quite windy that night, as the aircraft breaks up, the lighter things blew much further east.
19:35So the debris field extended, in fact, as far as the east coast of England.
19:40It was the largest debris field they'd ever seen.
19:45The search parties became part of the landscape.
19:48You couldn't look at a field and not see, you know, a line of people walking across it looking for things.
19:54It was humongous. 845 square miles.
20:01The largest crime scene in history.
20:04You know, I think initially we just thought this was a terrible, terrible accident with a huge loss of life.
20:13And you're thinking about the families.
20:15Because I lived in Scotland as well, not so far from Lockerbie, less than 100 miles.
20:20Somewhere I'd driven past the lot, you're realizing that this has affected a place that you know.
20:25We were walking into the village, and I remember these little houses along the road in, you know, there were smoldering.
20:35Some of them were still on fire. There was debris on the street.
20:40It looked like a bombed out European village in World War II.
20:43There was the enormous crater caused by the wing that landed on a group of houses.
20:53It was all incredibly disturbing.
20:56I don't know what made me take the camera.
21:11I mean, you can really see the extent of the devastation there, can't you?
21:18So that's the front of your house there.
21:20That fellow's Robinson's house.
21:22You're so close.
21:23Your body is still in the seat.
21:29Up there.
21:31Hey.
21:32On the 21st of December, 7 o'clock, I go out there,
21:46always huffing in.
21:47And I can always see that body that shone the torch on.
21:48And just...
21:49I can always see that body that shone the torch on.
21:52And just...
21:53And always do that.
21:54And always will.
21:55I can always see that body that shone the torch on.
21:58And just...
21:59And just...
22:00And always do that.
22:01And always will.
22:02There were 259 passengers on there.
22:03And I can always see that body that shone the torch on.
22:05And I can always see that body that shone the torch on.
22:09And just...
22:10And just...
22:11And always do that.
22:12And always will.
22:13There were 259 passengers on the plane.
22:16And always will.
22:17And always will.
22:18And always will.
22:19There were 259 passengers on the plane.
22:32Of those, 190 were American.
22:36There were also 11 people on the ground who ended up being killed.
22:41so we were looking at a tragedy that affected 270 people
22:46it was an international tragedy but it was especially an american tragedy
22:51i want to express our sorrow and our concern for the families and friends
22:59of those who died in the crash of the pan-american flight 103
23:03christmas is a special time for the young for those who carry the twin promises of hopes and
23:10dreams and on this flight were the hopes and dreams of many young people including the
23:16tragic loss of so many students from syracuse university a tragedy that steals the hopes
23:22and dreams from our society magnifies the loss may god be with them
23:32these were young people who were on their way home for christmas
23:38their families were waiting and they got the worst possible news they could have possibly had
23:47officials at syracuse university have provided this list of some of the 38 students booked
23:54that's when we first saw my brother's name as confirmed to have been on the flight
24:09alexander lawenstein a terrible way to find out that your that your child has died
24:16a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:18a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:23a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:25a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:27a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:29a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:30a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:31a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:33a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:34a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:35a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:36a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:37a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:39a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:40a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:41a terrible way to find out that your child has died
24:42People were going home for Christmas, so there was Christmas presents and luggage and obviously
24:56the bodies.
25:04We found a toddler just over that hedge in the next field.
25:09And she's just this little girl with blonde blonde hair, it's just the one thing that sticks
25:15in my mind.
25:21Police and the rescue services have so far recovered about 150 bodies.
25:2660 of them were found on a golf course, about 40 others found in a housing estate.
25:32Dozens of victims strewn along the landscape in a four-mile swath.
25:37It'll be a sad Christmas in this town.
25:43Of course, in the media, everything was about that image.
25:48And in the foreground was all debris and there were, you know, bodies covered with orange
25:54tarps.
25:55And in the right side of the foreground was a brown attache case.
25:59I'd given John that attache case for our anniversary on August 23rd of that year.
26:09He really was on board the plane.
26:11That's how really my, was the beginning of my nightmare.
26:21Look at the crumpled mace it is.
26:36Dear, dear, dear, dear.
26:40And these, these things were all in the front of the house.
26:43Yeah.
26:44Well, there's the house.
26:46That's how near it was.
26:48And that's up to the wing of the plane and the flaps.
26:52Yes, this is the red suitcase.
26:54That was quite the thing to see.
26:59Take me through that moment when you came across the bodies.
27:03Yeah, it was quite unreal for us, you know.
27:08Oh, goodness me.
27:10He was lying on the ground with the seat on top of him.
27:15We didn't know who he was, but he got, he got attached to him some way.
27:20Aye.
27:24For nearly 24 hours, we were keeping an eye on him up there, you know.
27:29We developed quite a love for our boy who called him.
27:36It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, the next afternoon, before they came for their man.
27:43And that was the door.
27:47Just a few hours before, they'd all gone in that door, hadn't they?
27:52Yeah.
27:53And here it's lying amongst them.
27:56Yeah.
27:59As at half past three this afternoon, the temperature and mortuary at the town hall is now full.
28:14And we have opened a second mortuary at the ice rink, at Lockerbie ice rink.
28:19Where in total, we have now received between the two morturies, 150 bodies.
28:24We have as yet no positive formal identifications.
28:35The body of somebody who's been killed by falling six miles to the ground, it's not a pretty sight.
28:40She'd been so damaged, she hadn't been damaged by the explosion on the plane, but mainly by impact of the ground.
28:52She'd been so damaged, which had so altered her face and her head that she, well, she was barely recognisable.
29:02I asked if I could look at her left foot, because she had a little pigmented spot on her big toe.
29:10She said the cloths were taken off her to feet.
29:17There was the spot on her damaged foot.
29:20I didn't want to see her when she had been killed.
29:29I wanted to remember her as I had last seen her, full of life.
29:37She was everything that a parent could wish for.
29:49Beautiful, bright, lively, intelligent girl.
29:53And we were very proud of her.
29:56A very kind guy who was organising all this for me, said, anything else I can do?
30:07So I said, yes, could I have a lock of her hair?
30:13He was kind enough to do that.
30:18Human kindness can be very important when these things happen.
30:26I tried to imagine how I would feel if it was one of my close family that had been on that flight.
30:39Still too many question marks over it.
30:44Still too many people left in complete doubt as to what happened to their loved ones.
30:56For a number of days, we didn't know about Alexander's body.
31:12Would it be found?
31:15Is it incinerated?
31:17How did he fall?
31:18You know, all these questions are going through your mind, unanswered, mind you,
31:23because there were so many days where you got no answers from anybody.
31:31The immediate need that I had and a lot of the other families was to find out how to get our loved ones home.
31:38Our government abdicated all their responsibility and role of crisis management and assistance to the victims' families to Pan Am.
31:52And so here's Pan Am circling the wagons thinking, oh, well, we might be sued or whatever.
31:59And they weren't helping us at all.
32:03Pan Am was an iconic American airline.
32:05Those were not its best days, but it was still, you know, prime American branding real estate.
32:15Pan Am was a catastrophe.
32:18The State Department was ridiculous, non-existent.
32:22So we were futzing around, not knowing what to do or where to get information from.
32:28And every time we got information, it got worse by the minute.
32:32There were people from the FBI, obviously.
32:33There were people from the murkier ends of the U.S. intelligence community.
32:35There were people from the U.S. intelligence community.
32:36There were people from the FBI, obviously.
32:37There were people from the murkier ends of the U.S. intelligence community.
32:38Nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story, you know.
32:39Nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story, you know.
32:40Nothing quite adds up.
32:41Nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story, you know.
32:42Nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story, you know.
32:43Nothing quite adds up.
32:44A flight on which we just went on to say, that's exactly what we did.
32:45The right people are trying to get off the hook, you know.
32:46People trying to get off the hook, you know.
32:47The insurers trying to pass the buck, the airline trying to save itself.
32:53There were people from the FBI, obviously.
32:56There were also people from murkier ends of the U.S. intelligence community.
33:02nothing is what it seems in the Lockerbie story you know nothing quite adds up
33:09the flight on which Flora got her seat at the last minute was only two-thirds full
33:18how many flights two or three days before Christmas to the States are only two-thirds full
33:25answer only those flights where people have been warned off she wasn't warned off
33:31nobody told us in this season of peace on earth growing suspicion of sabotage in the sky
33:40Reagan Bush administration officials acknowledged today that an anonymous caller had threatened to
33:46blow up a Pan Am plane sometime this month but no one warned the U.S. Army or the flying public
33:52in early December someone called the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki in Finland and made a threat
34:04within two weeks time someone will carry a bomb on board a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to the United
34:15States people working for U.S. agencies were made aware of that warning and were given the chance to
34:28make alternative arrangements whereas the normal traveling public weren't given that chance the
34:35American authorities put notices up on the notice boards of their embassies telling them there's been
34:42a terrorist threat to these flights and they might want to avoid them to get home for Christmas you
34:47see to their families in the United States
34:50Interpol warned airlines and police authorities in 147 countries
34:55the anonymous phone call to the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki Finland was very specific and perhaps very prophetic
35:01low and behold there were over 10 different bomb warnings on these flights and we wanted to know who
35:09got the warnings and what did our government do about it we receive dozens of threats each day we notify the
35:18people who have responsibility for security if nothing else it looked bad we protect ourselves we don't protect you
35:27such a public statement with nothing more to go on than an anonymous telephone call you'd literally
35:34have closed down the air traffic in the world no we were livid there was a lot of backpedaling from our
35:51government afterwards but even before the bombing this particular warning was circulated throughout
35:57the U.S. embassies in Europe and put on various bulletin boards and many people switched their flights
36:06obviously Pan Am wasn't mandated to enhance security search the plane or warn the passengers
36:14but what really petrified all of us is that this was going to happen to somebody else and we didn't
36:20want any American anybody to go through what we had gone through
36:27if some diplomats had known this then why not everyone why weren't they alerted why were they left
36:35in the dark and therefore why did their loved ones die all I was after was the truth about how my daughter
36:45had come to be killed and why she wasn't protected against being killed and those were the bases on
36:54which we very soon found we were being richly and profusely deceived by the authorities
36:59a thousand army and air force troops and policemen were deployed over the hills and fields around
37:21Lockerbie they combed the ground near the main crash site an aircraft made up of several million
37:29parts now lies in several million bits finding the ones that can tell something may take a very long
37:36time all the evidence is converging on this Lockerbie school building where in an auditorium police
37:46military and airline investigation leaders are trying to piece together just what happened it has been
37:52established that two parts of the metal luggage pallets framework show conclusive evidence of a
38:00detonating high explosion much investigative work remains to be done to establish it took them a week of
38:09examining all of the debris and the fragments of the plane finally a week later they found explosive residue
38:20inside the baggage container and that's when they determined conclusively that it was a bomb there
38:26is no doubt anymore the 259 passengers and crew of flight 103 were killed by a bomb the next question who
38:35said it and how did it get on board it turned into a murder investigation and that somehow affected me
38:45deeply because not only did I now have a dead son I had a murdered son within a week we knew that it
38:55was a terrorist attack against the United States and against an American carrier that killed 270 people
39:01it was the largest act of terrorism on the United States ever before 9-11 what we want to do is find
39:11out who did it and bring them to justice you bet the mid-1980s for really a remarkable time in terms
39:23of international terrorism virtually every day there was some news of some new terrorist attack airplane
39:31hijackings airplane bombings attacks on embassies assassinations of individuals you could look at the
39:37iranians you could look at the iraqis you could look at the syrians you could look at the palestinians
39:42you could look at the libyans they'd all been involved in terrorism there was a no the abad-e-dahl
39:48organization pflp popular front for the liberation of palestine pflp gc the popular front for liberation of
39:56palestine general command the provisional irish republican army pyra hezbollah
40:01could have been any one of them or a combination it was literally a wilderness of mirrors and it sort
40:11of fed the anonymity like who were these people who was behind them why were they doing these things
40:17and it's often very hard to find clear answers
40:21and then in late january early february we found a suitcase
40:33many of the suitcases that fell 31 000 feet to the ground would have been a great commercial
40:42they fell intact you could take the clothes out put them on go to a meeting
40:47but this suitcase was in about 54 pieces and fragments
40:54we pretty much thought that suitcase contained the explosive
41:01the bomb that blew up the plane
41:04that suitcase was determined to be a samsonite silhouette 4000
41:10antique copper in color
41:13they were able to determine that the bomb was in that suitcase in the forward cargo hold
41:21just under the back of first class
41:25it was in the hold of panam 103 that the bomb exploded and murdered my daughter
41:32the british authorities had been warned well before lockaby and had essentially done nothing
41:38if it's up to our government we might not ever know why panam 103 was blown out of the sky
41:47it was a whole world of intrigue and it was almost incomprehensible
41:52basically investigators had to go off into the shadows to try to figure out
41:56how this came about and i remember thinking you're never really going to understand this
42:03you
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