We took the car for a test drive and another strange coincidence occurred involving the number 557 on another car at a place we stopped. It was as though the number was somehow being emphasised, almost brought to our attention.

On 21st December 1988, Pan Am 103 crashed only forty miles away at Lockerbie. that night, when we read of the crash on TV teletext, Jenny looked up Lockerbie in an atlas. the map reference coordinates for Lockerbie are   55^o7'N,    3^o21'W  !!!!

The next day we watched the local Borders ITV channel to try to discover the identity of the plane that crashed. We managed to read the name on the cockpit. It was ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’. One of my aircraft reference books gave me its registration number. It was N739PA.

To our amazement, we realised this aircraft registration number was makes up the first three numbers of the  chassis number of the car we had taken for the test drive.  7AM396557.  What is more, the two letters which occur between the fist and second numbers of the chassis number 7AM396557 are the second word of the name of the airline - Pan Am. How strange, we thought. The chassis number was like a code identifying which plane would crash and where.

The cross-correspondences are uncanny - some people call it ‘spooky’. Pan Am 103 was destroyed at 7.03 pm on 21st December 1988. Iran Air 655 was destroyed on the 7.03.88 in the standard American dating system. Both aircraft even had almost identical liveries, white with a sky blue cheat line. The only real  difference was the Iran Air bird on the tailfin rather than the stylised Pan Am globe and its associated American flag.

Was it all just chance? Why should that car, of the precise make, model and engine size I specified, have arrived at a local garage less than three weeks before the Lockerbie disaster?

Did something know the future? 
I had got the idea to ask about a car of this particular make and model early in November. Why did I even bother to enquire because we had no money to buy a new car?  The idea just came into my head one day as I was paying for petrol at that particular garage when we were on our way to Edinburgh. Was something setting in motion a train of events which were to link to another momentous event 40 miles away and five or six weeks into the future which it knew would happen?  Was something warning that it knew the real truth?.

The Question raised of destiny is further discussed at Destiny and the two N739PAs

Of course you could always fall back on the skeptics 'explanation' for everything. It is all chance. Their great problem is that their religious belief system, scientism, precludes any other explanation. No mathematical theories can address something which lies beyond what we call space and time. They cannot be applied  to some greater reality beyond. This is one reason for  the vitriolic attacks by skeptics on any evidence adduced from either personal religious experience or psychical research. By their nature such experiences are not repeatable. They can therefore be dismissed as at best anecdotal, at worst fraudulent . In either case they are not worthy of further attention. But the limitations of conventional science are precisely that. Its limitations should not prevent man using his mind and his logic in seeking to learn what lies beyond the reach of conventional science. The skeptics say there is nothing.  Their lives are all the poorer for that. Why do they exhibit such messianic zeal  in trying to convince others that there is nothing but the sad world of materialism in which we all attempt to live today.

In July 1992, Newsweek published a long article to mark the anniversary of the shooting down of Iran Air 655 by the Vincennes. The cover story was entitled ‘Sea of Lies’, a reference to the dishonesty shown by both the Pentagon and the White House after the catastrophic act of incompetence by the crew of the Vincennes.  I found this magazine at the bookstall at a USAF base, in fact when I was working at RAF Chicksands. 

To use a related metaphor the investigation into the loss of Pan Am 103 would be best described as an 'Ocean of Lies'. So many things have happened over the years, so many strange ‘coincidences’, that indicate to us that despite whatever so-called ‘evidence’ was produced at the Scottish inquest and the Netherlands trial,  there was no bomb. The two accused Libyans were completely innocent. Their crime was to be Libyans. But the British and American governments have been determined that their version of the ‘truth’ shall prevail. Now the one convicted will rot in a Scottish prison for a crime he did not commit.

N739PA was a geriatric plane that had been modified by the Pentagon for use in the Strategic Reserve. It merely suffered from massive structural failure. The blame for the disaster, can be placed entirely on American shoulders - the Pentagon and Pan Am. But, there is a natural justice in the fall of Pan Am 103 - hence the references in the chassis number  Code of Destiny?

It fell because of American incompetence - as did Iran Air 655.

More details of our discovery of this code of destiny and this strange series of coincidences can be found in the article 'Problems with Probability' on this site.

Further details  can be found in the book entitled ‘The Enigma Variations’, and a full account will be published in    'The Jupiter Theme'