19-05-2025
The Bombing of Pan Am 103 review — a respectful telling of a complex atrocity
If you watched Sky's harrowing, horrifying drama Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, starring Colin Firth, then, only five months on, you may not feel like putting yourself through this heartache again. The timing of BBC1's The Bombing of Pan Am 103 does seem unfortunate and, some may think, random, given that it has been 37 years since the terrorist atrocity that killed 270 people, rather than the round number of 40, as is usually the way. But interest has been renewed because the May 12 trial in Washington of Abu Agila Mohammed Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi — a Libyan national accused of building the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 — has been delayed.
But this drama does differ. Sky's was from the
