Ruud Streefkerk

We are here in Dumfries and Galloway, in the south-west of Scotland, near Lockerbie. It was raining all night and day, causing several roads to become completely flooded. We had to drive through it, but as a result  one of the tires of our car was seriously perforated by the sharp point of a broken tree branch. Fortunately, a truck driver who lived there in the middle of nowhere,  helped us to get a new tyre! Lockerbie is known for Pan Am Flight 103: a Boeing 747, en route from Frankfurt to New York, that had just made a stopover in London. Shortly after 7 p.m., the plane disappeared from the radar. It was flying at an altitude of 10 kilometers at that time and was torn apart by an explosion in the luggage compartment. A burning wing came down in a residential area of Lockerbie. All 259 passengers and crew as well as 11 inhabitants of the village were killed. How important is a branch in your car-tire then…..