Lockerbie plane crash nearly included Four Tops, John Lydon and Kim Cattrall

A host of A-list celebrities were due to board the doomed Pan Am Lockerbie plane but did not make the flight, claims a new documentary.

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, Sex Pistols front man John Lydon and Motown legends Four Tops were all meant to be travelling on the jet which blew up over the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland.

Pan Am flight 103 was en route from Heathrow to New York on December 21 1988 when it was blown out of the sky by a radio-cassette player which exploded in the cargo hold.

All 243 passengers and 16 crew died, while 11 residents on the ground were also killed.

The new TV documentary, ‘Lockerbie: The Unheard Voices’, tells the stories of those who did not make the tragic flight.

One of those was British-Canadian actress Cattrall, who said: "I decided to take another flight because I had neglected to go to Harrods and buy a teapot for my mother."

Lydon meanwhile was saved by his wife’s slow packing.

He said: "She just couldn’t get the luggage together in time so we cancelled the flight."

Meanwhile Detroit music legends Four Tops did not make the flight due to a last-minute changed in the recording time for an appearance on Top of the Pops. They left London later on a British Airways flight.

Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is the only person to ever be convicted of the attack – he was in prison in Scotland since 2001, but died of prostate cancer in 2012.

In 2003, Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi accepted responsibility for Lockerbie and paid compensation to the families of the victims – even though he still claimed he did not give the order for the bomb.

The show is on Channel 5 on Tuesday December 4 at 9pm.

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