We Were There. Two retired AAIB investigators tell the inside story of Lockerbie

Two senior investigators from Britain's Air Accident Investigation Branch are breaking decades of silence about Lockerbie. This is their story - uncensored, unfiltered, and unlike anything you've heard before about Pan Am Flight 103.

December 21st, 1988. Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. But who actually solved the case? It wasn't the FBI. It wasn't the CIA. It was two AAIB investigators torn from their families at Christmas and sent into a nightmare.
This is their first fully candid account.

For almost four decades, their story has remained largely untold - sanitized in official reports, edited down to footnotes in documentaries, buried beneath higher-profile agencies' narratives. Until now.
In this exclusive interview, these senior investigators share:

🔹 The Reality No One Talks About:

Being first on the ground
Working in freezing conditions through Christmas
Making crucial decisions about evidence vs. victims' dignity
How they identified it was a bomb when others didn't know what to look for
The dark humor that kept them sane in impossible circumstances

🔹 What They've Never Shared Before:

Personal photographs from the investigation (unseen for 36 years)
How they coped with recovering victims
The process of reading wreckage like a crime scene
Dealing with huge loss while staying professional
Leading multiple agencies who didn't know where to start

🔹 The Truth About Evidence:

How they distinguished bomb damage from impact damage
What clues looked like scattered across Scottish countryside
The painstaking process of reassembling a 747 in a hangar
How evidence "spoke" on behalf of 270 victims
Why their work made prosecutions possible

The Human Cost:
These weren't action heroes or TV investigators. They were engineers and fathers, husbands pulled away from Christmas dinner to do the worst job imaginable. They saw things no one should see, carried burdens no one should carry, and somehow maintained the professionalism that solved one of aviation's darkest mysteries.
"There were no survivors at Lockerbie" - or were there?
The victims' families survived. Lockerbie's townspeople survived. The emergency responders survived. And these two investigators survived - though they left pieces of themselves in Scotland that December.
This isn't a typical documentary. There's no dramatic music, no re-enactments, no narrator telling you how to feel. Just two men, sitting down to finally tell their story with complete honesty - the good, the bad, the horrific, and yes, even moments of dark humour.
This level of access and candour has never been achieved before on this subject.

⚠️ Content Note: This interview contains frank discussions of death, disaster response, and victims. It's presented respectfully but without sanitization.

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