A Toshiba "radio", packed in a Samsonite suitcase, loaded in the centre of a baggage container just forward of the port wing of Pan Am flight 103, 747-100 "Clipper Maid of the Seas", exploded

259 on board were killed.

11 in the Scottish town of Lockerbie were killed when the wings, loaded with fuel for the transatlantic crossing, landed in the town.

RIP.

I'd only just gone through Lockerbie half an hour before, travelling back to Liverpool from Glasgow where I was living. I arrived back in Liverpool to panicking parents who thought the coach may have been caught up in it and TV coverage of the aftermath. There was additional anxiety as one of my sisters flat mates lived in Lockerbie .... and as expected it took days to contact her to make sure she was ok.