Lockerbie

by Rodney Wallis

"The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, is a tragedy that never should have happened. Rodney Wallis, an expert in aviation security matters, warned the industry one year before the bombing that transfer of baggage from one airline to another represented the prime opportunity for terrorist activity. As a remedy to this weak link in security, Wallis urged the adoption of passenger and baggage matching, a system that he had helped to develop. Mandated by the FAA for use at high-risk airports, this was the critical feature missing from Pan Am's activity at Frankfurt, an omission so cruelly exploited by the bombers. Wallis argues that governments' primary emphasis on technological solutions to the continuing terrorist threat puts the flying public at unnecessary risk every day.". "This book brings together all of the facts surrounding the sabotage of Flight 103, including the investigation and the civil litigation in which so much of the story unfolde