Did Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire really take a fake bomb onboard a plane?
dailyrecord.co.ukNew Sky series Lockerbie follows campaigner Jim Swire's hunt for justice as he tries to understand the plane crash. Lockerbie: A Search for Truth focuses on Swire’s search for justice and is based on the book, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Swire and Peter Biddulph.
Spanning five episodes, the series follows Dr Jim Swire (Colin Firth) who fights for answers about the fatal crash which killed his daughter Flora and 269 others on December 21, 1988.Only one man – intelligence operative Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from Tripoli – has ever been convicted over the attack.
He was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 after he was diagnosed with cancer. He died three years later in Libya.But Swire has argued Megrahi was innocent.
He believes Iran – and not Libya – downed the flight. During the series, which can be watched in full on Sky and NOW, we see Dr Swire sneak a fake bomb onboard a flight.But did the incident really happen and why did he do it?Doctor Jim Swire brought a fake bomb on a flight with him and the drama mostly shares an accurate story of what happened.
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