My memory tells me the trigger on the radio bomb on the Lockerby flight was
one that worked on air pressure change. Parts of the bomb were found by
investigation team and it was reconstructed to determine how it worked, as
I recall.
Due to weather on that day, the flight was given a different cli
A Bombeat radio cassette player with Semtex in it?
That has to qualify as the most extreme pun ever concocted.
Who says terrorists don't have a (warped) sense of humor?
Mitch.
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But I was thinking there was a second airline disaster involving
a terrorist bomb that was conveyed to a girl friend to carry on board.
The Pan Am 103 bomb was in unaccompanied luggage dropped off in Germany.
There was no personal connection, according to the program.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:06
Andrew,
You were not mistaken; that’s what happened. I don’t know what this Smithsonian
Channel program claimed, but the facts are that after an extensive
reconstruction and analysis of the bits and pieces of the jet it was proven
that the explosion of a semtex bomb hidden in a Toshiba Bombeat S
The aircraft was destroyed by a bomb in a radio. The bomb was built my
Moomar Kaddafy's people. It was in the luggage hold in a bag. It went
off early due I think to some schedule delay for the flight, so that it
exploded over land not over open ocean. Within the last year or two was
a show
> On October 10, 2017 at 10:10 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
>
> I just watched a superb Smithsonian Channel program on the Lockerbie crash
> of Pan Am flight 103. I had mistakenly thought the plane was brought down
> by a bomb that a girl had transported on board that was given
I just watched a superb Smithsonian Channel program on the Lockerbie crash
of Pan Am flight 103. I had mistakenly thought the plane was brought down
by a bomb that a girl had transported on board that was given to her by an
acquaintance. That was not the case, however. Does anyone remember the
situ
