TV drama shows how incorrectly in the reaction of the victim was influenced how the FBI dealt with September 11th

Richard Monetti was only 20 years old when he flew from London from London to New York after studying one of 35 students from Syracuse University abroad.

But he and everyone else on the plane never made it home.

They lost their lives in the worst terrorist greater Great Britain when a bomb in their flight, Pan on 103, exploded over the Scottish city of Lockenbie.

It killed 270 people from 21 countries, including 11 people on site, and this devastating event has now been dramatized in an upcoming BBC drama series, the Bombarding of Pan on 103.

Kara Weipz still remembers how she and her family found that her brother Richard was among the dead – for the first time they heard it in a news report on the bomb attack.

She not only expanded her trauma, but also emphasized mistakes in the reaction system for families of the victims.

“I think it was very important to ensure that these lessons were learned – how families had to be notified before names could be published,” she says BBC News.

“We had not published this luxury in 1988 as a name before we were notified. So that's something that came out of it and thereby changed.”

As President of the Pan victims of the Pan am Flight 103 Group, a role she took on her father Bob Monetti, it is important that relatives “know what rights they have” and at the same time the role of the group in the “upbringing of those who deal with victims,” ​​emphasizes.

These lessons continue to improve how the families of the victims were treated after September 11, as four planes that fly over the eastern USA were confiscated by kidnappers at the same time and killed 2,977 people.

The screenwriter Gillian Roger Park, who was born just a few days before the bomb attack on Lockenbie and grew up from the Scottish city, is a co-author of the series.

It dramatizes the examination of the Scotsa in the attack, the impact on the families of the victims and the effects on the locals of Losterbie.

Roger Park says that the families have “written history” by talking about mistakes in the system.

“After their lobbying and campaign, many of the protocols introduced after September 11th were based on what they fought for,” she says.

Airlines also benefited from their experiences.

“Many Pan on the 103 family members have trained airlines in how to deal with victims,” ​​she adds.

Kathryn Turman, played in the series of Severance actress Merritt Wever, was head of the Office for Victim of Crime for the US Ministry of Justice.

Turrman arranged trips for family members and a safe visit with a closed cycle in the United States to negotiate two suspects in the Netherlands in 2000. The FBI finds that this was unprecedented at that time.

Weipz adds: “We have victim services in the FBI, in the Ministry of Justice, in the US law firm. Why? Now, because of Kathryn, but also because of the Pan on 103 families.”

In one of the consequences, Turman's character says a hint: “The families should have been protected and prioritized from the start … We cannot make this mistake again.”

The drama also illuminates that lobbying from family groups based in Great Britain and the USA to “important reforms, from strengthening the travel warning systems and the stricter luggage examination to human-centered answers to important disasters”.

For the main clerk of the series, Jonathan Lee, it was also a way to explore the human stories behind the horror.

The show, a co -production with Netflix and illuminates “The history of these small but heroic actions of the link between humanity, after this bomb that has tried to go apart things apart,” he says.

There are some surprisingly uplifting moments for such a dark topic.

We experience the strength of the ties between people after the bomb attack.

“The cooperation between families, countries and law enforcement authorities brings us from the worst humanity to the best of the best,” says the former lawyer Lee the BBC.

“We pack things together by working together.”

The series is something like a puzzle – we see that the police and the FBI carefully process thousands of evidence fragments if Abdulbaset Al Megrahi is convicted of the bomb attack in 2001.

Two years later, the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi took over the responsibility of his country for the bomb attack and paid compensation to the families of the victims.

The other pieces in the puzzle of the TV drama concentrate on the life of people in Lockenbie and beyond. Volunteers appear to help traumatized families.

Weipz remembered a scene in the drama in which her father tries to achieve a financial agreement for the death of his son with the Pan on the insurance committee.

“That was one of the worst days of my life … hear that her brother really had no value because he was 20 years old and was a deputy manager at a swimming club and mowing lawns …

“When you see it, see how terrible it was.”

We also see women from Lockenbie who made endless cakes for the investigators, washed the victims' clothing before they have returned to families and showed relatives the place where their relatives died.

“It was important to train these emotional, human stories and bring the Scottish stories to life,” says Roger Park about the volunteers.

“You did such a hard work and it was not your work, you were only locals who had a moral obligation to help.

“These women are just like my gran, I know such women and I only think we rarely concentrate in this type of domestic stories.

“And what a strong stuff from which they would have to be made to do what they have done. I love that they used the tools of their domestic life to do such heroic work.”

Michelle Lipkin in New York, whose father Frank Ciulla was killed on the flight, likes to talk about “the women who wash the clothes”, including Ella Ramsden and Moira Shearer.

“My mother was near Ella and Moira, and we see Moira when we go to Scotland,” she says.

“There are no words to describe gratitude for you because our loved ones have been murdered.

“It is the evilest of evil, and every piece of clothing you washed, every food you made for the searchers – which only brought back what is possible, and the human mind and the kindness.”

Weipz also talks about the “compassion” that the people in Lockenbie showed in the hours after the bomb attack.

“People also slept outside with their bodies. They didn't want them to be alone. It overwhelms me at the times when I think about it,” she says.

The Scottish actress Lauren Lyle plays June, the wife of Det SGT SGT Ed McCusker, one of the leading Scottish police officers.

She says, even though the investigation was a “male story because it was the 80s,” she also believes that “the women have just performed the same”, often behind the scenes.

Lyle spoke to the real Ed McCusker to research her role, and says: “About five years ago June became Krebs and she knew that she would die. And she said to Eddie:” One thing she wants to do is to tell this story. “

“She sounded like a really impressive woman who gave the family together, and I think she represents the people in Lockenbie.”

Weipz adds: “Perhaps the people who see this take part of the sympathy they see and pay it forward – we need a little more in the world these days.”

The bombing of Pan on 103 from 9 p.m. on Sunday, May 18th, on BBC IPLAYER and BBC One and will be on Netflix worldwide at a later date