It was just before Christmas 1988 that Pan Am flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, enroute to New York. All on board the jumbo jet and 11 people on the ground were killed. With 270 victims, it was Britain's worst terrorist attack.
After an extensive police and FBI investigation, a Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, was eventually handed over by Libya to stand trial under Scottish law in a third country - the Netherlands. He was found guilty of mass murder and is currently serving a life sentence in Scotland.
The evidence against Al Megrahi was controversial and many people - including some relatives of Lockerbie victims - believed he didn't receive a fair trial. Last year the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission concluded the Libyan may have suffered a miscarriage of justice and granted him a second appeal against his conviction. The appeal hearings are expected to start in Scotland early next year.
This documentary investigates the case against Al Megrahi and interviews people directly involved in the crash of Pan Am 103 - from all sides of the story.
The programme also investigates the so-called "Helsinki Warning", which many people believe was a genuine tip-off that a Pan Am flight to New York was about to be targeted. The US official who took the anonymous call at the American Embassy in Finland two weeks before Lockerbie describes on camera what happened. The film also interviews the Palestinian migrant worker who was claimed by the caller to be the bomber. For 20 years his identity has remained a mystery - until the producers of this film tracked him down...
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