01 April 2015, The Tablet

Lockerbie never leaves us


 
It is 26 years since the burning wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 engulfed a Scottish border town. The parish priest at the time says people still live with the shock, anger and pain of the tragedy For Fr Patrick Keegans, the Germanwings Airbus crash brought back horrific memories of that night 26 years ago when the wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 fell from the sky on to the small town of Lockerbie, in the Scottish borders, where he was parish priest. “Lockerbie never leaves us,” he said. “We live our lives normally and happily, but when something like this happens it takes us right back. Those emotions don’t go away. They stay deep.”The Pam American transatlantic flight was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on 21 December 1988, with the loss of all 259 passengers an
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