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Jan 12, 2008 12:47:37 GMT 1
Post by Admin (Annette Andria) on Jan 12, 2008 12:47:37 GMT 1
Wanted: Home For Lockerbie Jumbo
12 January 2008 | 12:06 | FOCUS News Agency
Lockerbie. The wreckage of the Pan Am jet that was blown apart over Lockerbie two decades ago needs a new home, Sky News reports.
The fuselage of the downed jumbo jet may end up as a museum piece.
Fragments of the Pan Am flight 103 that were retrieved from the fields around the Dumfriesshire town after the outrage in 1988 are stored at the Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) headquarters in Farnborough.
The wreckage stands around 10 metres tall, supported by scaffolding, inside an aircraft hangar. It's pieced together, jigsaw-style, as a reconstruction of the Maid of the Seas passenger plane.
The structure has been kept as a key piece of the technical evidence that helped convict a Libyan agent of carrying out the atrocity.
Now, with Abdel Basset ali Mohmed al Megrahi approaching the end of his appeal process, the remains of Pan Am 103 are due for removal.
So what do you do with a bombed jumbo jet? There's no shortage of offers.
Glasgow's Museum of Transport wants a piece - or two - to add to its existing Lockerbie exhibition.
It cites reasons of historical significance, although it has stressed that it would be guided by the families of disaster victims on whether or not they felt it was appropriate to publicly display the remnants of Britain's worst terrorist atrocity.
