The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced, Monday, that it will show with Netflix a series dealing with the Lockerbie bombing in Scotland, which dates back to December 1988, and killed 270 people.
A statement from the British giant group stated that “BBC and Netflix have asked World Productions to produce a series entitled Lockerbie, which is based on real events and consists of six parts,” reports Al-Rai daily.
On December 21, 1988, Pan American Flight 103, which was traveling from London to New York, crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland, after a bomb exploded in the hold of the plane, killing all 259 people on board and 11 others on the ground.
This is the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil, while only one person has been convicted, the Libyan Abdul Basit Ali Muhammad al-Megrahi, who died in 2012.
Al-Megrahi has consistently denied these accusations and maintained his innocence.
The series will shed light on the repercussions of the attack, including the investigation that followed, and the trauma faced by the residents of Lockerbie and the families of the victims.
The BBC statement indicated that the series “Lockerbie” will present elements taken from interviews with officers who participated in the investigations, “that have not been previously shown.” “The disaster of Pan American Flight 103 and the global search for its perpetrator constituted a decisive event in world history,” said British novelist and screenwriter Jonathan Lee, who will write the work.
The series will be shown first on BBC and then on Netflix in the United Kingdom and various countries of the world, after filming this year.
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