Flight 182 Air India

The flight 182 of Air India ensured the connection Montreal - Bombay via London and Delhi. The June 23rd 1985, a bomb placed at edge of the Boeing 747-200 of Air India exploded destroying the apparatus to 9.500 m of altitude above the Atlantique, in the south of the Ireland. The 329 people on board whose 80 children and 200 Canadian people of nationality perished in the attack.

Brothers and the bomb

June 22nd, 1985 with 13:30 GMT, a man being presented in the form of a Mr. Singh reserves a seat on the flight Canadian Pacific Airlines' (CP) starting from Vancouver for Toronto, asking that its bag be transferred on flight 182 (a Boeing 747, VT-EFO, called Kanishka). The agents, which recorded it like not confirmed, initially refuse to put the luggage in the circuit then accept.

To 15:50 GMT, Mr. Singh to Vancouver for this vol. the agent Jeannie Adams is presented places its luggage for the vol. At 16:18, the flight leaves without Mr. Singh.

No information is known on the recording of Mr. L. Singh in Vancouver for the flight CP Airlines for the airport of Tokyo. Jeannie Adams takes also its bag which takes seat in the compartment of flight 301 bound for Bangkok. L.Singh is made allot the seat 38H.

At 20:22 GMT the flight CP Airlines 60 arrives at Toronto with 12 minutes of delay. Some passengers and luggage, including that of Mr. Singh, were transferred on the flight from Air India. Other passengers and luggage of the flight Air Canada 136 also coming from Vancouver make the same way.

With 20:37 GMT, the empress of Australia, share of Vancouver without L. Singh on board.

To 00:15 GMT (on June 23rd) flight 181 leaves Toronto for Montreal, with a delay of 1:40 for a change of engine under the left wing. It arrives 45 minutes later. It becomes flight 182.

At 05:41 the flight for Tokyo arrives 14 minutes before the schedule envisaged. The luggage which was in transfer for the flight Air India 301 explodes killing two of the luggage handlers and wounding four other people.

With 07:15 flight 182 disappears from the radars of Shannon and a noise of explosion is made hear. The plane was to arrive one hour later.

The pieces of the wreck rest by 2000 m basic with nearly 250 km of the coasts of the Ireland.

The bomb killed 19 team members and 307 passengers, including 82 minors. It was the Attentat the most important clerk on Canadian citizens (280 passengers). Some of the passengers survived the explosion as with the fall, but drowned.

The flight Air India 301 starts from Narita to 08:05 GMT and arrives to Thailand without problem.

Parmar

The principal suspect, named the Babbar Khalsa, was the chief of a group Sikh Terroriste acting in Canada. Talwinder Singh Parmar was supposed to have conceived the attack whereas he lived in Colombia-British. Parmar was a naturalized Canadian citizen that India wanted to extradite for its actions in Punjab. The Canadian Service of the information of safety (SCRS) obtained the authorization to record its phone conversations on March 5th, 1985, three months before the attacks.

In 1992 Parmar is killed by the police force with the Penjab.

The lawsuit nowadays

In October 2000 the GRC stops Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri on the inculpation of the murders described above and the attempt at meurtes on the passengers of Air India 301. In 2001 it stopped Inderjit Singh Reyat, suspecté to be the manufacturer of the bombs. In 2003 Reyat pleads guilty.

Before fuselage could be reconstituted with pieces of the wreck. The lawsuit of Malik and Bagri, delayed by legal problems, began in April 2003 and on March 16th, 2005 they are discharged, in a decree which denounces a charge based on very fragile testimonys. The police force declares that they maintain a team of investigators on the file.

There are allegations saying that the SCRS intervened in the investigation by destroying hundreds of records printer so protecting their mole in the terrorist group. The SCRS declares that they were without interest.

External bond

'' Vol 182 of Air India: chronicle of a misfiring '', May 20th, 2007, Cyberpresse

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