I REMEMBER SEEING THIS IN REAL TIME, I WAS BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES ON MY 25 TH BIRTHDAY CAKE, I ALWAYS REMEMBER THOSE POOR SOULS EVERY YEAR SINCE,. RIP
The Late 80s was a terrible time for major incidents in the UK... the Bradford Fire, Herald of Free Enterprise, M1 Plane Crash, Lockerbie, Hillsborough, Kings Cross Fire and Clapham Junction Collision! All within 5 years...
Even newsflashes on BBC One are rare enough now! It seems as though everything either breaks into regular programming for an extended time or not at all...
I remember I was watching a film called Poison Candy (also known as Little Sweetheart) on bbc1 and there was a news break and Michael Buerke came on the screen announcing this terrible thing. I went through to tell my parents. They had friends round who had arrived a week early for a party but had stayed for drinks anyways. The friend was a butcher and he said that just before he arrived at our house, he’d been on the phone to a supplier in Lockerbie who had to cut the call early ‘cos the roof has just come off my house’. Went back to watching the movie...
I was on Guard duty in my first year as a Serving Soldier. When I came off duty the following morning one of my mates said to me Your from Annan... yeah Annan is near Lockerbie. He told me what had occurred. The night before we were either reading , watching videos or sleeping when not on Stag as we call it in the Army. It was a shock. My mums next door neighbour saw the flash in the distance and just before that bright items coming down to the North. Annan is the chief Market town of the local area and Lockerbie is in Annandale. It could have been so much worse as just to the East of Annan was the Chapel Cross Nuclear Power Station. If that plane had come down onto the Station? God knows what could have happened.
I lived in Annan in the 2000s, so know it very well and you've made some fair points. I know that a bar of Pan Am soap was found in a street in Annan. People I knew in Annan said they remembered what sounded like two rolls of thunder but unlike with thunder the ground shook.
I remember this news report I was 7 and putting Christmas decorations with my mum and sister . My aunt uncle and cousin were flying over for Christmas from Canada when it happened so we had a few moments of panic .... so sad
When you could understand both the newsreader and the announcer. Whilst the set was basic, there appeared to be standards. Nowadays, the beeb reply on us to film and report for them.
Read on Ceefax in my room as a kid, came downstairs to tell my family. First newsflash was with Michael Buerk after EastEnders on BBC1, and said simply there are no further details at present after the opening couple of lines.
And on January 8th 1989 (i.e. about a fortnight later) there was that other plane crash next to the M1 at Kegworth. It wasn't terrorism but Lockerbie was obviously very fresh in peoples' minds.
Stayed about 40 miles north of Lockerbie, was about 14 at the time and remember the news flashes, and hearing the fire engines going there from pretty far away!
I think that could have been initial response to the explosion on the plane because probably they was unconscious after that and with decompression but we will never know for sure
@@paulhynes170 well, a flight attendant was found alive by a farmer but died before help arrived and several passengers were known to have survived the crash but eventually succumbed to their injuries and hypothermia. Some were found clutching handfuls of grass. Many probably regained consciousness as they fell through more dense air.
Nicholas Witchell says there are more details on the BBC1 9 o'clock news "now", so this BBC2 newsflash was probably squeezed in after "Minnelli on Minnelli" (7.50PM) and before "Alas Sage and Onion" (9PM).
I stand corrected. This bulletin was broadcast after Alas sage and onion. There was a newsflash on Two just before Smith and Jones. You can see the tail end of it here czcams.com/video/cEXUfENQCOE/video.html
I think he was referring to how much safer air and rail travel is since the 80s and 90s. Many changes were put in place to ensure such accidents either didn’t happen so frequently or at all.
I remember this, the somber text appeared and my Dad going "Oh no, what's happened?!". Back when a breaking news alert really meant something, and one of the few times in my childhood I ever saw one used.
I was at my then girlfriends house and channel 4 news mentioned a plane had gone missing over the the England/Scottish border and then when watching Des O'Connor tonight show back at my house there was a newsflash about the tragedy.
The bomb on board was actually meant to have gone off when the plane was on the ground at Heathrow or whichever airport it came from but the timer was set incorrectly.
Also from what I’ve seen of the flight path, the aircraft hadn’t flown over Carlisle on that particular flight, it was about 20 miles west of there and crossed the Solway. And Carlisle is about 2 minutes away from Lockerbie at aircraft speeds, not 20 seconds. But yes on any given day, this flight or any other on this busy transatlantic route could have rained down on Carlisle, or any other place for that matter. Doesn’t bear thinking about. Though it’s unfortunate for Lockerbie two areas were hit badly with wreckage, considering how rural the surrounding area is. How there weren’t more fatalities on the ground is miraculous.
Thank you for posting a stark reminder of this atrocity. It was the result terrorism on an scale unheard of in the UK. Please do not compare it with Kegworth! The Kegworth tragedy was the result of pilot error that cost many lives. The flight crew shut down the good engine instead of the failed engine; (it is very well documented).
Remember watching live ..watching TV in bed as I had the flu and was waiting for Red Dwarf to come on ! now a days it would be all over CZcams in 10 mins of it happening !
I REMEMBER SEEING THIS IN REAL TIME, I WAS BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES ON MY 25 TH BIRTHDAY CAKE, I ALWAYS REMEMBER THOSE POOR SOULS EVERY YEAR SINCE,. RIP
The Late 80s was a terrible time for major incidents in the UK... the Bradford Fire, Herald of Free Enterprise, M1 Plane Crash, Lockerbie, Hillsborough, Kings Cross Fire and Clapham Junction Collision! All within 5 years...
And the Marchioness and Hungerford.
And Heysel too- it happened only 18 days after the Bradford fire tragedy.
@PeckyThePigeon - bullshit
@@wazzock999 And Stock, Aitkin and Waterman! Dreadful times.........
M1 plane crash? Honestly don’t remember that one
Even newsflashes on BBC One are rare enough now! It seems as though everything either breaks into regular programming for an extended time or not at all...
I remember I was watching a film called Poison Candy (also known as Little Sweetheart) on bbc1 and there was a news break and Michael Buerke came on the screen announcing this terrible thing. I went through to tell my parents. They had friends round who had arrived a week early for a party but had stayed for drinks anyways. The friend was a butcher and he said that just before he arrived at our house, he’d been on the phone to a supplier in Lockerbie who had to cut the call early ‘cos the roof has just come off my house’. Went back to watching the movie...
30 years Lockerbie remembered 21/12/1988 - 21/12/2018
1988/2020
I was on Guard duty in my first year as a Serving Soldier. When I came off duty the following morning one of my mates said to me Your from Annan... yeah Annan is near Lockerbie. He told me what had occurred. The night before we were either reading , watching videos or sleeping when not on Stag as we call it in the Army. It was a shock. My mums next door neighbour saw the flash in the distance and just before that bright items coming down to the North. Annan is the chief Market town of the local area and Lockerbie is in Annandale. It could have been so much worse as just to the East of Annan was the Chapel Cross Nuclear Power Station. If that plane had come down onto the Station? God knows what could have happened.
I lived in Annan in the 2000s, so know it very well and you've made some fair points. I know that a bar of Pan Am soap was found in a street in Annan. People I knew in Annan said they remembered what sounded like two rolls of thunder but unlike with thunder the ground shook.
I remember this news report I was 7 and putting Christmas decorations with my mum and sister . My aunt uncle and cousin were flying over for Christmas from Canada when it happened so we had a few moments of panic .... so sad
Terrible tragedy. That slide is very rare indeed. Announcer is David Allan, My anorak duties are done :)
And David is still with us, at 80 years old.
When you could understand both the newsreader and the announcer. Whilst the set was basic, there appeared to be standards. Nowadays, the beeb reply on us to film and report for them.
Read on Ceefax in my room as a kid, came downstairs to tell my family. First newsflash was with Michael Buerk after EastEnders on BBC1, and said simply there are no further details at present after the opening couple of lines.
And on January 8th 1989 (i.e. about a fortnight later) there was that other plane crash next to the M1 at Kegworth. It wasn't terrorism but Lockerbie was obviously very fresh in peoples' minds.
Unusual to see the reference to the CEEFAX page after a major news story. The announcer is David Allan.
Ahh... CEEFAX, I miss it.
Stayed about 40 miles north of Lockerbie, was about 14 at the time and remember the news flashes, and hearing the fire engines going there from pretty far away!
To think those poor people were probably conscious before they hit the ground. Some were found holding hands and clutching crucifixes.
I think that could have been initial response to the explosion on the plane because probably they was unconscious after that and with decompression but we will never know for sure
@@paulhynes170 well, a flight attendant was found alive by a farmer but died before help arrived and several passengers were known to have survived the crash but eventually succumbed to their injuries and hypothermia. Some were found clutching handfuls of grass. Many probably regained consciousness as they fell through more dense air.
@@Bazanadu she is one of only 2 people on that plane they said could have been saved
Correction
Many mortuaries have been told to prepare for many casualties
My dad passed through Lockerbie 30 mins before the plane crashed
Nicholas Witchell says there are more details on the BBC1 9 o'clock news "now", so this BBC2 newsflash was probably squeezed in after "Minnelli on Minnelli" (7.50PM) and before "Alas Sage and Onion" (9PM).
That's exactly right. I seem to remember there was a bulletin right after Smith & Jones too.
I stand corrected. This bulletin was broadcast after Alas sage and onion. There was a newsflash on Two just before Smith and Jones. You can see the tail end of it here czcams.com/video/cEXUfENQCOE/video.html
Followed by Hidden Suitcase, Falling Plane
Not a tragedy. The eruption of Krakatoa was a tragedy: this was an atrocity and 33 years later I still can't grasp the scale of it.
Awful thing is not one person went to hospital, not one. RIP PA103
People on the ground were taken to hospital, a friend of mine was burned whilst driving past
I remember that broadcast… we all got a terrible fright.. as my friend lived In Dumfries.
I've just visited the memorial earlier today. Very sad and poignant place. I was 3 when this happened.
i was 4 when it happened, strange that i have vague memories of the news at that age. tragedy !
I remember several weeks later driving down A74 to Carlisle and saw the fuselage on a huge truck heading south. Very very disturbing to see..
I was 18 in 1988, and the terrible news events from 1985 to 1989 rate amongst the worst in living memory, we seem much safer today.
This comment didn't age well! 😁
@@tommiatkins3443 Indeed
I think he was referring to how much safer air and rail travel is since the 80s and 90s. Many changes were put in place to ensure such accidents either didn’t happen so frequently or at all.
Nicolas witchell used to be called the poison carrot.
I remember this, the somber text appeared and my Dad going "Oh no, what's happened?!". Back when a breaking news alert really meant something, and one of the few times in my childhood I ever saw one used.
Holy crap! 0:51 Teletext!!
Witchell with the News Flash again. Many he fronts in the late 80s; Zeebrugge, Lockerbie, Storm in southern England....
He lived closest to TVC at the time and therefore why.
Your announcer is David Allan
I was at my then girlfriends house and channel 4 news mentioned a plane had gone missing over the the England/Scottish border and then when watching Des O'Connor tonight show back at my house there was a newsflash about the tragedy.
A shocking piece of news, the impact of which has still not diminished after 23 years.
Looks like Nicholas was presenting this newsflash from the One O'Clock News set
Went to the memorial site ,beautiful place
It was 29 years ago yesterday, it'll be 30 years next year
The days before 24hr news channels.
If the plane had blown up 20 seconds before it would have been over my home city of Carlisle and the death toll would have been many many more.
The bomb on board was actually meant to have gone off when the plane was on the ground at Heathrow or whichever airport it came from but the timer was set incorrectly.
@@frankw9619 no it wasn’t, it was intended to go off over the ocean.
Also from what I’ve seen of the flight path, the aircraft hadn’t flown over Carlisle on that particular flight, it was about 20 miles west of there and crossed the Solway. And Carlisle is about 2 minutes away from Lockerbie at aircraft speeds, not 20 seconds. But yes on any given day, this flight or any other on this busy transatlantic route could have rained down on Carlisle, or any other place for that matter. Doesn’t bear thinking about. Though it’s unfortunate for Lockerbie two areas were hit badly with wreckage, considering how rural the surrounding area is. How there weren’t more fatalities on the ground is miraculous.
@@royfontaine5526 I know it flew over Birmingham did it fly over Manchester?
I'm shocked.
Thank you for posting a stark reminder of this atrocity. It was the result terrorism on an scale unheard of in the UK. Please do not compare it with Kegworth!
The Kegworth tragedy was the result of pilot error that cost many lives. The flight crew shut down the good engine instead of the failed engine; (it is very well documented).
Page 258, David!
Remember watching live ..watching TV in bed as I had the flu and was waiting for Red Dwarf to come on ! now a days it would be all over CZcams in 10 mins of it happening !
I remember waiting to watch The Elephant Man on BBC1.
Red Dwarf was already on in 1988? 😯
Dreadful day
A truly terrible evil act desperately sad for so many innocent people. 🙏
Wicholas Nitchell
Remember this terrible
Surely "disaster" isn't the right word? It was a terrorist attack, mass murder. The word "disaster" usually refers to accidents.
A true point.
It was indeed mass murder most foul, but at the time of the newsflash I don’t think anybody really knew that a bomb had exploded on the plane.
We didn't know it was a terrorist incident at the time, that was discovered soon after.
Im sorry but What he says ???? 0:17
"Dumfries"......Its a place in Scotland!
yortko1 but what The guy say ?
"The flight's number; 103, was en-route from London, Heathrow to John F Kennedy airport"
what every single one
Mossad, Iran or USA?
All 3. The route N739PA took was used to smuggle drugs to N.Y.C. and Detroit of all places. Operation Corea 1988
Gaddafi dead
That's nice, what does it have to do with Libyan terrorists
This tragedy has nothing to do with Libyan terrorists.