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This plane bombing takes us to the European country of Ireland, which is located south of Northern Ireland and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea and the Celtic Sea, it's located near the Isle of Man and Wales.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE BOMBING AND PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, pictured on the 10th of June 1985.
Air India Flight 182 was a scheduled international flight from Toronto Pearson International Airport (IATA: YYZ, ICAO: CYYZ, as Air India Flight 181) to Sahar International Airport (IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB) with regular Mirabel-London-Delhi stops. On the morning of June 23rd, 1985, the Boeing 747-237B serving the route exploded near the coast of Ireland from a bomb planted by Sikh terrorists. All 329 people on board were killed including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens, and 22 Indian citizens. The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history and was the world's deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001. It remains the deadliest aviation incident in the history of Air India, and the deadliest hull loss of a Boeing 747, without survivors.
The perpetrators are believed to be Inderjit Singh Reyat, a dual British-Canadian national, who pleaded guilty in 2003, and Talwinder Singh Parmar, separatist leader, who was one of the key individuals associated with the a Khalistani separatist group, Babbar Khalsa. The plot included a second bomb, intended to commit mass murder of the occupants of Air India Flight 301, but instead killed two baggage handlers at Tokyo's Narita International Airport when the bomb suitcase was being transferred from the original Canadian airplane to the Air India 747; fragments from this bomb proved Reyat's involvement. The two bombs had started their journey when checked onto a pair of Canadian Pacific Air Lines flights from Vancouver International Airport, one headed to Tokyo – for connection with Air India Flight 301, and one to Montreal – for connection with Air India Flight 182.
The plan's execution had transnational consequences and involved citizens and governments from five nation states. Babbar Khalsa, was implicated but not confirmed to be responsible for the bombing. Although a handful of people were arrested and tried for the Air India bombing, the only person convicted was Inderjit Singh Reyat, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to manslaughter. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for assembling the bombs that exploded on board Air India Flight 182 and at Narita.
The subsequent investigation and prosecution lasted almost twenty years. This was the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly C$130 million. The two accused, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were both found not guilty.
The Governor General-in-Council in 2006 appointed the former Supreme Court Justice John C. Major to conduct a commission of inquiry into the failure to prevent the terrorist acts, compounded by the failure to achieve convictions of any perpetrators beyond the bomb maker. His report, which was completed and released on the 17th of June 2010, concluded that a "cascading series of errors" by the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had allowed the militant attack to take place.
