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Black September and the Lockerbie Bombing (2/5)

This is also part of this series: Days that Shook the World (5)

Subjects: Anthropology, Biographies, History, Media Studies, Political Science, Terrorism, War

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2003
Available in French: No

Exactly 31 years before 9/11, an audacious series of skyjackings, involving five aeroplanes and over 700 passengers, shocked the world. After a week of international negotiations and brinkmanship, at 15.00 hours on 12th September 1970, three aeroplanes were dramatically blown up on a desert airstrip while the world looked on. At the helm was a previously unknown group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Its aim was simple - to make the world recognise the rights of the Palestinian people. Their campaign was effective; for the first time Western governments capitulated to the demands of terrorists. Four days before Christmas in 1988, Pan Am flight 103 bound for New York exploded in midair, killing all 259 people on board. The raining firestorm on the small Scottish town of Lockerbie took another 11 victims. When crash investigators discovered traces of Semtex, the investigation into Britain's worst air disaster and biggest mass murder began. This film relives the night of the tragedy and tells the personal stories of a few lucky survivors.

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