The town of Lockerbie held a poignant commemoration service to remember the 270 victims of the Pan Am 103 bombing.
Lockerbie paid a poignant tribute on Saturday to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Dumfries and Galloway town 36 years ago – as well as those who helped in the wake of the disaster. There was a large turnout for the community celebration of “remembrance and gratitude” held at Lockerbie ’s Tundergarth Parish Church which included a service, poetry and music by local performers.
Locals, families of those killed, and members of the various emergency services and organisations who helped, were in the congregation. At 7.03pm on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded as it reached cruising altitude at 31,000 feet just 42 minutes after taking off from London’s Heathrow Airport. The Clipper Maid of the Seas – which had 259 passengers and crew on board from 21 countries, and aged from two-months-old to 82 – crashed into the town and surrounding countryside with no survivors. Fire and wreckage descended on the community and the world watched in horror as the town was turned into a burning hell. Eleven Lockerbie residents also died that night. Inside the church, sited close to the field where the nose cone of the jumbo came crashing down, were 270 candles – each representing one of the victims – and their names were also read out as part of the commemoration organised by Tundergarth Kirks Trust and the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie Legacy Foundation. A spokesperson for Tundergarth Kirks Trust said: “We’d like to thank all of those who attended our special Community Celebration of Remembrance and Gratitude at Tundergarth Church. Alongside our partners, the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie Legacy Foundation, we were overwhelmed by the response with people travelling from as far away as Southampton, the Highlands, Wales and the USA. “To have family members of the victims say what a wonderful service it was, means the world to us al
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