Since their formation the teams have rescued thousands of civilian walkers and climbers and responded to hundreds of aircraft crashes . Perhaps the most famous call-out of all was for the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie , Scotland in 1988 , also known as the Lockerbie Air Disaster . This terrorist incident resulted in the scattering of human remains over a wide swath of southern Scotland . The call-out involved four of the six teams then in existence and " stretched the personnel involved to the limits " . Psychological effects on RAF MR troops that took part in the call-out were described in " Trauma " by Professor Gordon Turnbull , who was an RAF psychiatrist with personal knowledge of RAF MR
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service