Lockerbie The Unheard Voices.

[HelenaDove]

Is anyone else here watching this. Its been thirty years since this shocking heinous crime.

@JellyBears it was fucking disrespectful of Emmerdale to do that. And they set the storyline at Christmas. It was Christmas 1993.

Was there an outcry at the time about Emmerdale? I don’t watch soaps so it all passed me by.

I fell into an Internet wormhole last night reading up about this. Unfortunately the evidence shows that several victims were alive after they hit the ground. The ones who survived the initial blast would have been unconscious for the first minute or so of the descent then regained consciousness for the final minute until impact. Some of them were conscious after that for some time before dying.

There was a 10 month baby found with each of their young siblings still holding their hands. Some air crew were found still in brace position.

Yes, I’m pretty sure there was an outcry at the time.

I've not seen yet going to watch on catch up . I was 9 when it happened but I remember it well I was allowed to stay up late and it was on the news I remember how shocking it was even as a child .

From Wiki

Reception
Previously seen as "quaint and slow" compared to other British soap operas,[2] the plane crash was a turning point for Emmerdale and marked its "graduation" into a major prime time soap opera.[3] The episode gave Emmerdale its highest-ever audience of 18 million.[4] ITV received many complaints as the timing of the storyline was close to the fifth anniversary of the Lockerbie Disaster.[2] According to The Independent, the episode proved to be "brilliant television", as it "allowed the writers to get rid of much dead wood, and reinvent the soap virtually from scratch.

I watched this last night. I remember it well. I was flying to Johannesburg on a 747 on the 24/12 3 days later. They still hadn’t decided whether it was terrorist or a fault with al 747s. I am not a good flyer and I wAs not in a good state.
I had no idea about the famous people who missed the flights.

My parents flew out to New York on 10 September 2001.

DM was very nervous about flying back after what happened the next day.

@HelenaDove It really really is awful! Obviously in 1993 I was a child myself so I wouldn’t of put the two together but now as an adult I’m shocked!

I drove past Lockerbie on the 26th to visit family. I will never forget how it looked that day.

I remember watching it on the news as a child.

It was such an extraordinary event in such an ordinary place.

The victims direct and indirect deserve the full answers. I don’t believe much of the official story, as is the opinion of many of the victims families.