The Truth about Lockerbie - MartinFrost.ws

A personal message
A tale of three atrocities
On 19 th September 1989, my brother was murdered in a Libyan terrorist attack. He was travelling on
UTA Flight 772 between N'Djamena in Chad, where he worked in oil field development, and Paris.
When he died, he was returning to the UK via Paris to participate in a gliding competition in Scotland.
He lived for gliding and loved the air. He had even represented Guernsey at the 1982 World Gliding
Championships. The latter seems an odd achievement because I didn't know he had a connection to
the place. So it was a tragic irony that he should meet his death in the beastly destruction of an aircraft.
I like to think he was sitting back with a gin and tonic in his hand just before he died. Perhaps he was
thinking of pleasant air adventures ahead.
My brother was a long-standing member of Lasham Gliding Club, near Alton in Hampshire. His life was
centred on the airfield and close friends living in and near the town who were devoted to the sport. He
repaid that friendship in his will, leaving them sufficient money to build a workshop at the airfield. The
Club has named the workshop in his memory. They also established a “Tony Norrie” award for the best
two-seater flight of the year.
These people, to my mind, constituted his “gliding family”. To them, I had to bring the sad news of his
tragic death. My brother and I were never close. However, when he died, I found he had made me his
executor. I asked my mother “Why?”. “Because you always have the last word in any argument”, she
said, enigmatically.
I metaphorically extended the remit of executor to inquire about the circumstances of any tragedy that
could have a bearing on his death. So, I settled down to read myself into Lockerbie. Like UTA,
Lockerbie was to be attributed to Libya.
With that thought in mind, I offer these thoughts on Lockerbie twenty years later. The conclusions of my
research are shocking. They are also wildly different from anything previously published. Given what
Libya did to my brother, my stance may surprise you.
Charles Norrie
norriecb@gmail.com
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