Spotlight: Are we any closer to the truth behind Lockerbie?
With US Attorney General Bill Barr seeking the extradition of a suspected bombmaker from Libya, we take a look at the search for answers behind an international tragedy They were going home to a Christmas they would never see. Just 38 minutes after the plane had taken off, as it prepared to wheel to port and head out over the Atlantic, an explosion ripped through a forward hold of the Boeing 747. It was two minutes and 50 seconds past 7pm on the evening of December 21, 1988. A recovered voice recorder would reveal a 180-millisecond hissing noise before Pan Am 103’s communications centre...