New research has suggested that two victims of the Lockerbie airliner bombing could have survived the six-mile fall to earth only to die of exposure later, a newspaper has reported.
The pathologist's report says that the unnamed pair of Americans were the only two of the 270 victims - passengers, crew and 11 victims on the ground - who stood any chance of surviving the fireball, the Sunday Times reports.
A terrorist bomb destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town in December 1988 shortly after it had left London on its way to the USA.
In an article in the journal of the Medico-Legal Society, Anthony Busuttil, regius professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh University, says that one of the victims, a man in his 40s, only suffered a broken leg, the newspaper reports.
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