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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Man] [inaudible]
[Woman] Oh my God, it was terrible, sparks and then the whole thing went down. U.S. Embassy London
[Martin Cadman, father of victim William Martin Cadman] In February, 1990, with some others from the U.K. families' group, I met the American President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism at the American Embassy. That was in February 1990. And at the end of that meeting, after it had broken up, one of the members of the Commission said to me, "Your government and ours know exactly what happened, but they're never going to tell.
[Narrator] In the beginning, a hand, a bag, and a baggage tag. And a radio that plays cassettes and has on its flipside a bomb. Most of what we read in the papers is true, but no official party is going to tell you what's true and what isn't true.
[William Barr, U.S. Attorney General, 1991] For three years the United States and Scotland have been conducting one of the most exhaustive and complex investigations in history. Today we are announcing an indictment in the case. We charge that two Libyan officials acting as operatives of the Libyan Intelligence Service, along with other co-conspirators, planted and detonated the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103. At this moment, Lord Fraser, Chief Prosecutor of Scotland, is announcing parallel charges. I have just phoned the families of some of those murdered in Pan Am Flight 103 to inform them and organizations of survivors that this indictment has been returned and their loss has been ever present in our minds.
[Man] One of my family, when he goes in the airport, Hourani give him a tape recorder from his sister. He says that's a memory from my sister, don't forget this tape recorder, and he go on the side of him with like a bodyguard to the airport. That's what happened with him, and give him the tape recorder, fix everything for him in Germany. And give it to him at the airport, and he don't know about it.
THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS
[James Graham] I was driving going along the road there and I just [inaudible] something, a light in the road, [inaudible] a bog, and when I got into the car I checked them, I thought well it was a luggage, a hold-all, and I chucked everything off the road to get past and I drove back up to the farm, and when I got there [inaudible] in the house, the car, the dog [inaudible] in the road, I found it when I arrived, but when I got back there were shoes, people's shoes and a bust aerosol can, I can remember, [inaudible] it was plain on the doorstep in front of the house. Later on [inaudible] a bloke, a dog and explained what happened, that a plane had crashed. So I went over with him, I think it was about 3:00 in the morning when I got back, and he had the dog and they were looking for somebody, thinking maybe somebody's still alive or something, or whatever. I could really see [inaudible] back to the airplane. And there just seemed to be hundreds of suitcases [inaudible] it seemed like at the time, and also a lot of Christmas presents [inaudible]. And there was nothing wrong with the lock on them, or anything. [Inaudible]
I picked a present up and on the card the note said, "Sorry she couldn't be back for Christmas" and I can't explain what it was, but that was really great saddening, to think that the lassie that was sending it, well she'd know she'd never be back.
[Dr. Jim Swire] [Inaudible] and I was actually in my study doing a family [inaudible] with a picture for each month for various people for Christmas and Jane called me through because she'd heard on television about an air crash and my first reaction was that it couldn't have anything to do with Flora because I thought she would have been out in the Atlantic by that time, and in fact we know that the plane being delayed a little bit but I just came through and watched these dreadful pictures of the little town of Lockerbie in flames.
And at that time I felt it wasn't Flora's plane.
[Man] [Inaudible.]
[Man] [Inaudible.] There is debris falling everywhere. [Inaudible] And all we could see was fires. [Inaudible] The whole countryside was ablaze.
[Jane Swire] I knew Flora had left that evening for the States. She'd gone to stay with her boyfriend over Christmas. And I switched on the television just to look at it while I made the supper, really. And there was this news flash that there had been a crash in Scotland, of a Pan Am plane and immediately my heart began to pump because I knew she was traveling by Pan Am. I was gripped with that icy cold fear that I think every mother has when her children are in danger.
[Charles Price, U.S. Ambassador, U.K.] This is the most incredible devastation. It's just unbelievable. It's impossible I think to even imagine such an extraordinary tragedy.
[Linda Forsyth, Pam Am Ground Hostess Heathrow] We had an aircraft going out that night, a 727, which was taking various members of our company up to Lockerbie, and also we had a private aircraft to deal with which was the American Ambassador who was going out to the sight.
[Jim Renwick, Pam Am Security London] As far as I can recall, there were about 40 people excluding crew on board of which I would estimate 50% of those were known to me as Pan Am people, the others I wasn't aware of their affiliations at all.
[George Stobbs, Lockerbie Public Inspector] On the [inaudible], I started to set up a control room and by about between 11:00 and midnight we also had a member of the FBI in the office who came in, introduced herself to me and sat down and [inaudible] what was happen.
[Tom Dalyell MP] The local people, Dumfries and Galloway, they were concerned, absolutely swarms of Americans fiddling with bodies, and shall we say tampering with those things that the police were carefully checking themselves. They are not pretending. They said they are from the FBI or the CIA. They were just Americans who seem to have arrived extremely quickly on the scene.
[Dr. David Fieldhouse, Police Surgeon] I was asked to go to various locations in and around Lockerbie to look for bodies. At first, it was in the early hours of the morning and very high winds, about 30-40 mph at ground level. When we'd gone down one large field and identified about 10 bodies, we thought we ought to retrace our steps and put some form of identification on them and so the only thing I had with me was a block of small white labels and 100 or so plastic gloves which I carry at all times because of my usual [inaudible] And so I put a code on every one, DF being my initials and DF1 right through to 58, on the bodies in that particular sector. I learned later that when the bodies were taken to the mortuary, all the labels which I had put on them had been removed with the exception of two. Those two labels were identified on photographs later on but for the rest, every other one had been removed and disregarded.
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