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How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.
- Programme: Days That Shook the World
- Series: 1
- Episode: 08: Lockerbie
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2003
- History
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