The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 - more than 30,000 ft above the town - caused the deaths of 259 passengers and crew. Eleven people on the ground were also killed, as sections of the airliner crashed down.

Here - with the help of archive material - four people who were in Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 recall what happened.

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Testimonies from Marjory McQueen, Maxwell Kerr, Father Pat Keegans and George Stobbs.

Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 19 December 2008.

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