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The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, the deadliest aviation incident in the history of Air India and was the world's deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The deadly bombing of an Air India flight in 1985 is back in the news after relations between India and Canada hit a new low. Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his...
Air India Flight 182 disaster, passenger jet explosion off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, that claimed the lives of all 329 passengers and crew members. Sikh extremists were accused of sabotaging the Air India aircraft, and one suspect was convicted in 2003.
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Jun 23, 2024 · In a simultaneous attack, another bomb intended for an Air India flight to Bangkok exploded prematurely at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, killing two Japanese baggage handlers. This bomb was linked to the attack on Flight 182, indicating a coordinated effort. What did the investigation find?
- Political Events Before Bombing
- Suitcase Bombs Planted
- Explosions Kill Hundreds
- Discovery of Passengers and Wreckage
- Criminal Investigation Begins
- Reyat and Parmar
- Investigation Stalls and Revives
- Murder Charges Laid
- Trial For Mass Murder
- Aftermath
In 1983, armed Sikh separatists took over Sikhism’s holiest shrine — the Golden Temple complex— in Amritsar, India. From within the temple compound, charismatic separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was agitating for a Sikh homeland, called Khalistan, to be carved from the northern Indian state of Punjab. In early June 1984, Indian prime min...
The fledgling Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was paying attention to Parmar and his associates. CSIS agents were following Parmar and intercepting his phone calls from March to June 1985. On 4 June, they tailed him to Duncan, on Vancouver Island, where he met Inderjit Singh Reyat, a local marine mechanic, and also a mystery man dubbe...
Japanese baggage handlers Hideharu Koda and Hideo Asano were unloading suitcases from a CP flight at Tokyo’s Narita Airport on 23 June 1985. As they grabbed one of the bags from Vancouver that was tagged for an Air India flight, it exploded. They were killed instantly. At the same time, Air India Flight 182 had almost completed its six-hour transat...
The merchant vessel Laurentian Forestwas carrying newsprint from Québec to Dublin, Ireland, when it received an emergency call about 8:30 a.m. The ship was already in the area and soon found the nightmarish scene: the ocean was strewn with bodies and debris. Crewmen Daniel Brown and Mark Stagg spent hours in a small lifeboat attempting to recover b...
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service(CSIS) had only existed for 11 months at the time of the bombing. But agents had already amassed a large file on the suspected mastermind, Talwinder Singh Parmar, and his associates. When CSIS agent Ray Kobzey first heard about the bombing, his immediate thought was that Parmar was behind it. Some CSIS agen...
Investigators zeroed in on Reyat, Parmar, Bagri and a man named Surjan Singh Gill, who had resigned from the Babbar Khalsa just days before the bombings. It appeared that police were making good progress, especially when search warrants were executed at the homes of several suspects in November 1985. But the only charges laid were minor ones agains...
By the mid-1990s, the Air India investigation had stalled. There were few officers working on the file. There were few tips coming in. Gary Bass, an RCMPinspector who would later become a deputy commissioner, was instrumental in setting a new direction for the probe. In 1995, he assigned veteran officer Doug Henderson, who had interviewed Reyat a d...
On 27 October 2000, Ripudaman Singh Malik was arrested at a private school he had founded in Surrey. Ajaib Singh Bagri was also arrested, outside his home in Kamloops, British Columbia. They were charged with conspiracy to commit the first-degree murders of those who died aboard Air India Flight 182. They also faced similar charges in the deaths of...
The trial of the century, as many observers called it, began at the British Columbia Supreme Court on 28 April 2003. The courtroom was packed with families of the victims who had been awaiting justice for 18 years. There were relatives and supporters of the accused and there were many journalists and police in the public gallery as well. Lead prose...
Devastated families of the victims renewed their calls for a public inquiry into the bombing. The federal government resisted at first but then appointed former Ontario premier Bob Raeto do a review and make recommendations on the scope of an inquiry. On 23 June 2005, the 20th anniversary of the bombings, Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martinattended ...
Jul 15, 2022 · The bombing of Air India Flight 182 Kanishka in 1985, which killed 329 people onboard, is considered one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in aviation history.
Sep 28, 2023 · What happened to Air India Flight 182? On June 23, 1985, a Boeing 747 going from Toronto to London was approaching the coast of Ireland when a bomb placed in an unaccompanied checked bag exploded ...
