Jim Swire Daughter — Flora

Flora was a brilliant academic who had recently graduated from medical school with first-class honors. At the time of her death, she was conducting research for a PhD at the in London and had a promising career in medical research ahead of her. Beyond her academic success, she was a talented musician who played the guitar and piano, as well as a gifted artist. The Lockerbie Tragedy

Every time Jim meets a prime minister (he famously met Gaddafi), walks the wreckage at Lockerbie, or holds a piece of the shattered fuselage, we feel Flora’s ghost asking the same question: “Dad, why won’t they just tell the truth?” jim swire daughter flora

After his daughter Flora is killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, a gentle British doctor transforms into an unlikely international crusader for truth—not seeking revenge, but a single honest answer, even as the system he once trusted crumbles around him. Flora was a brilliant academic who had recently

Would you like to know more about Jim Swire or Flora Swire's art? The Lockerbie Tragedy Every time Jim meets a

On the evening of just one day before her 24th birthday—Flora boarded Pan Am Flight 103 at London’s Heathrow Airport. She was traveling to the United States to spend Christmas with her American boyfriend, Hart Lidov, a young doctor.