Lockerbie, review: Sky's series is a masterclass in compassionate documentary-making
Just after 7pm on 21 December, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, bound for New York, exploded over Lockerbie. In an instant the quiet Scottish town was transformed into a smouldering hellscape – houses wrecked, bodies strewn across the golf course, the air thick with aviation fuel. It was clear that this was no accident: a bomb had gone off. Until 9/11 it was the deadliest terrorist attack in US history, and it remains Britain’s worst. Two hundred and seventy people died.