It was shortly before Christmas in 1988 when his Jim's changed forever, when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded and fell out of the sky over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.
Jim's 23-year-old daughter was killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in 1988. A bomb had been planted in a suitcase, which detonated over LockerbieFor more than 30 years, Dr Jim Swire has tried to live up to his daughter's memory by pursuing a dogged campaign for the truth.
He visited him shortly before his death in 2012 and was told by the cancer sufferer: 'I am going to a place where I hope soon to see Flora. I will tell her that her father is my friend.' Jim became the spokesman for the UK Families Flight 103 group and has spent years meeting experts and officials and has had independent reviews of the evidence undertaken.
Writing of the moment that his daughter's death was confirmed, he said: 'Into my mind came images of Flora's walk, her hair, her face, her laughter. The Lockerbie disaster has been re-created for an upcoming Sky drama. Above: Mock plane wreckage strewn on a street in an image taken yesterday in the nearby town of Bathgate
Jim and his wife believe that their daughter, a neurology student who had just been accepted to do a PhD at Cambridge, would have gone on to great things. Jim used his authority as a doctor to track down the doctor doing the post-mortems, who let him see Flora's body. One of the engines from Pan Am Flight 103 is seen embedded in a road in Lockerbie as police and residents look on
Another Libyan national, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, has been accused of making the Lockerbie bomb. He is awaiting trial in the US and has pleaded not guilty.'I know he didn't make the bomb. I know who made the bomb,' he said. The Lockerbie bombing took place on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky.
The flight was running slightly late and should already have been out over the Atlantic en route to New York. Lockerbie's Town Hall and its ice-rink were pressed into service as temporary mortuaries and within 24 hours of the disaster, a total of 1,000 police had been drafted in, along with 500 military helpers.
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