The Maltese Double Cross - Lockerbie (Allan Francovich, 1994) Eng w⁄ German Subs (Englisch) Subtitles

00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,I thought it was an earthquake actually and  then I rushed out. I'd looked up and I seen  

00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,the engine coming down and they were away 50  50 yards from my house and the planes away  

00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:39,the other end of town. Oh my god, it's terrible.  Then sparks and then the whole thing went dumb.

00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:48,In February 1990 with some others from the  UK family's group. Um I met the American  

00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:53,President's Commission on Aviation Security  and Terrorism at the American Embassy. That  

00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:02,was in February 1990. And at the end  of that meeting, after we'd broken up,  

00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:11,one of the members of the commission said to  me, "Your government and ours know exactly  

00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:19,what happened, but they're never going to  tell." In the beginning, a hand, a bag,  

00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:33,and a baggage tag. And a radio that plays  cassettes and has its own flip side, a bomb.

00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,Most of what we read in the papers is true,  but no official party is going to tell you  

00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:45,what's true and what isn't true. For three  years, the United States and Scotland have  

00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:51,been conducting one of the most exhaustive  and complex investigations in history. Today,  

00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:59,we are announcing an indictment in the case.  We charge that two Libyan officials acting as  

00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:05,operatives of the Libyan Intelligence Service  along with other co-conspirators planted and  

00:02:05,359 --> 00:02:13,detonated the bomb that destroyed Panama  Flight 103. At this moment, Lord Frasier,  

00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:19,chief prosecutor of Scotland, is announcing  parallel charges. I have just telephoned  

00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:25,some of the families of those murdered in Panama  Flight 103 to inform them and the organizations of  

00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:32,survivors that this indictment has been returned.  Their loss has been ever present in our minds.  

00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:41,to one of my family when he going to the airport  harani give him one tricod from his sister he said  

00:02:41,599 --> 00:02:49,that's remember it from my sister don't forget  the t recorder and he go in the side of him with  

00:02:49,439 --> 00:02:54,him like bodyguard to the airport that's what  happened with him and give him little picod fix  

00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:01,everything for him here in Germany and give it  to him to the airport and he don't know about

00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:08,Around coolen

00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,peak

00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:19,the mist is sailing

00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:28,the b sheer

00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:36,not of willing.

00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:43,But my blue

00:03:43,039 --> 00:03:48,with so

00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:53,dreaming

00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:04,for him that will never return. I was driving  along the road there. They're just pieces of  

00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:11,something lying on the road and nets and a bag.  And when I g***t out of the car to shift them,  

00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:17,I found well, it was a luggage, a hold. And uh  chucked everything off the road to get past. And  

00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:24,I drove back up to the farm. And when I g***t here,  there was nobody in the house at all. The dog,  

00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:29,they were waiting the road. I'll found it  later on. But when I g***t back, there was shoes,  

00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:35,people shoes, and a burst aerosol can. I can  remember the m it was spraying about in the  

00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:42,doorstep in front of the house. Later on, a fella  landed in for the I don't know if it was mountain  

00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:48,rescue. It was a bloke with a dog and explained  what had happened that a plane had crashed. So,  

00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,I went out with him. I think it was about 2:00  in the morning when I g***t back. And he had the  

00:04:53,600 --> 00:05:00,dog maybe looking for well somebody thinking might  be somebody still alive or something or whatever.  

00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:07,I could really see we're finding great big bits  of airplane and just seemed to be hundreds of  

00:05:07,439 --> 00:05:11,suitcases. There wouldn't have be, but it  seemed like it at the time. And also a lot  

00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:17,of Christmas presents that I Yeah, they were  perfect. And there was nothing wrong with a  

00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:26,wrapping on them or anything. I think the worst  was I picked a we picked a present up and it  

00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:33,uh on the card in the outside it said sorry  she couldn't have be back for Christmas and I  

00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:38,kind of just mind what it was but that really was  quite sickening to think that the lassie that was  

00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,sending it would well she'd never be back. Jane  and I were both uh at home in Bronze Grove and  

00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:48,um I was actually in my study doing a kind of  family calendar with a picture for each month  

00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,for various people for Christmas and Jane called  me through because she'd heard on the television  

00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:59,about an air crash. And uh first my first reaction  was that it couldn't be anything to do with Flora  

00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,because I thought she would have been uh out in  Mid-Atlantic by that time. And in fact, of course,  

00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,we didn't know that the plane had been delayed a  little bit. But I just came through and we watched  

00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:13,these dreadful pictures of the little town of  Locker being in flames and and at that time  

00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:20,I I think I I felt it wasn't Flora's plane. The  plane did come down actually where houses were.  

00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,Houses are not there now. It's just a bit cr where  the houses used to be. There was debris falling  

00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:30,everywhere and I thought the whole roof was going  to cave in and I us looked out the back window and  

00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:38,all I could see was fires starting up, you know,  just right over the whole countryside was blaze.  

00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:47,I knew Flora had left that evening for the States  where she had gone to stay with her boyfriend over  

00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:54,Christmas. And um I switched on the television  just for something to look at while I made the  

00:06:54,879 --> 00:07:03,supper really. And there was this news flash  that there had been a crash in Scotland of a  

00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:14,Panama plane. Well, immediately my heart began to  thump because I knew she was traveling by Panama.  

00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:21,I was sort of gripped with that icy cold fear  that I think every mother has when her children  

00:07:21,439 --> 00:07:28,are in danger. It's just the most incredible  devastation. It's just uh it's unbelievable.  

00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:37,It's it's impossible, I think, to just to  even imagine such an extraordinary tragedy.

00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:45,We had an aircraft going out that night, a  727 which was taking various members of our  

00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:54,company up to locker and also uh we had a private  aircraft to deal with uh which was um the American  

00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:00,ambassador who was going up to the site. As far as  I can recall, there were about 40 people excluding  

00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:08,crew on board, of which I would estimate uh 50%  of those were known to me as Panama people. Uh  

00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:16,the others I I wasn't aware of their affiliations  at all. on the night uh I was started to set up  

00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:24,a control room and by about between 11:00 and  midnight we actually had a member of the FBI in  

00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:32,the the office uh who came into came in introduced  himself to me and sat down and uh and just most of  

00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:38,the night observing what was happening. the  local police force Duncan Gallery. Uh they  

00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:48,were concerned at the swarms of Americans fiddling  with bodies and shall we say tampering with those  

00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:54,things that the police were carefully checking  themselves. I'm not pretending that they said  

00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:02,they are from the FBI or the CIA. uh they were  just Americans who seem to have arrived extremely  

00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:10,quickly on the scene. I was asked to go to various  locations in and around Lockerby to look for  

00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:17,bodies. At first it was in the early hours of the  morning in very high winds about 30 40 mph ground  

00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:24,level. When we'd uh gone down one large field  and identified about 10 bodies, we thought we  

00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:30,ought to retrace our steps and put some form of  identification on them. And so uh the only thing  

00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:37,I had with me was a a...