Published On Dec 21, 2018
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded 38 minutes after take-off.
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Donald MacCormick presents a Newsnight special on 22 December 1988, after a Pan Am plane crashes into the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
The 259 people on board were killed, along with 11 people on the ground.
At the time of broadcast, the cause of the crash was still unknown.
Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing in 2001.
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