Fireball from sky shattered village life

IT’S been nearly 15 long years since the Lockerbie disaster but relatives who lost loved ones are still searching for answers that money can’t buy. What made the disaster all the more chilling was its timing – days before Christmas.

The improbable location, in the quiet borders hills of Scotland, gave it another peculiar horror.

Hundreds of passengers, few of them likely to be aware they were even over Scotland, plummeted onto a town whose residents were equally unaware a New York-bound airliner was passing five miles overhead.