Air India Inquiry....on and on
A police officer has testified he was called in with his bomb sniffing dog to search the luggage on Air India 182 at Mirabel. When he got to the airport the flight had left. The RCMP had provided witten certification that the luggage had been checked. This has proved to be not the case.
How can a dog search loaded luggage on-board an aircraft unless it is in the bulk hold or completely off-loaded? Most luggage is containerized leaving no room at all for a dog or handler to search.
"I felt very, very sad ... I felt that I could have helped but didn't have a chance to assist," Carignan said, as he recalled hearing the next morning that the Air India plane had exploded. He said he was not interviewed by investigators in the wake of the terrorist attack.
Carignan's evidence, contradicts written assurances from both the RCMP and the transport department that the plane was inspected by a bomb-sniffing dog before it was given clearance to take off.