Pan Am Flight 103 is six miles above the Scottish border. He watches the 747 move across his radar screen as a bright green cross. ‘Route direct to five nine, north, one zero west’. ‘Good evening,’ replies air traffic controller Alan Topp. We are level at three one zero,’ Capt MacQuarrie says to Prestwick Air Traffic Control. He tragically died in 2000 when he was hit by a train after drinking 14 pints of lager and 'falling asleep' on the track when his son Luke was just three years oldĬabin crew are serving drinks and handing out headphones for the in-flight movie, Crocodile Dundee II. He invested the money he received from Pan Am and the Libyan government. Steven (pictured) lost both parents in the aircrash and it affected him for the rest of his life. At the controls are two American pilots: 55-year-old Captain Jim MacQuarrie, who has over 4,000 hours’ experience flying 747s and First Officer Ray Wagner with 5,000-plus hours’ experience. The Jumbo moves away from the gate and begins to slowly taxi towards Heathrow’s runway 27R. Basuta gets to the gate and pleads with the Pan Am duty manager to let him on, as his wife is expecting him in New York. He is unsteady on his feet as he’s been drinking with relatives who’d come to see him off. The suitcase is only 25in from the skin of the 747’s fuselage.īack in Terminal 3, car mechanic Jaswant Basuta, 47, is running as fast he can towards Flight 103’s departure gate. Placed inside is 450 grams of Semtex plastic explosive attached to a timer. It contains a Toshiba ‘BomBeat’ radio cassette player. In an aluminium baggage container in the aircraft’s forward cargo bay area is a light brown suitcase. Kim, 32, is at Heathrow waiting to board a later flight to New York. But at the last minute she changed her mind as she had forgotten to buy her mother a gift of a teapot from Harrods. But she had taken so long to pack for their holiday that they cancelled their tickets and booked a flight for the next day.Īctress Kim Cattrall (later of Sex And The City fame) was also booked on Flight 103. Two of the empty seats in First Class should have been taken by the Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten and his wife Nora. Three-year-old Suruchi Rattan was one of the passengers killed during the bombing
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