On December 21, 1988, Flight 103 was cruising at 31,000 feet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The investigation by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed that the CVR recorded normal cockpit activity right up until the point of detonation.
According to the official AAIB accident report (Report No: 2/1990), the CVR tape exhibited severe "dropout." The explosion had generated an immense electromagnetic field and physical shockwave that caused the CVR’s recording heads to momentarily lose contact with the tape. Furthermore, the forward cargo hold explosion severed electrical power lines to the cockpit milliseconds after the detonation. Pan Am 103 Cvr Transcript
The real story of Pan Am 103 is not what was said in the cockpit, but what was smuggled into a cargo container in Malta a week prior. The real evidence was never magnetic tape; it was a piece of circuit board the size of a fingernail, a melted timer, and a fragment of a shirt from a boutique in Sliema. On December 21, 1988, Flight 103 was cruising
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