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Air India 182 - 23rd June 1985

Old 23rd Jun 2005, 14:36
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It was twenty years ago today on Sunday, 23rd June, 1985. Shannon High Level VHF lost contact with Air India 182 at about 0813 local. The aircaft, a Boeing 747-238, exploded in the air about 120 plus miles off the Cork and Kerry coast due to a bomb in the hold. All 327 crew and passengers were lost. The aeroplane had left Toronto bound for Heathrow before heading east again continuing her journey to Bombay.

A huge recovery operation was put in place with HQ at Cork Airport and SAR assets from Ireland, Britain, The United States and merchants ships at sea. Canadian Forces joined the recovery a few days later.

Today, the Prime Minister of Canada along with the President of Ireland are in the Cork area attending a memorial at Ahakista in County Cork, the nearest landpoint to the explosion. The case againt the alleged perpetrators collapsed in Canada earlier this year and the Canadian Government is now coming under a lot of pressure for a investigation (Royal Commission?) into how the case was handled from day one.

I was up at Cork Airport that day and recently I was visiting the grave of a friend at a local cemetery and closeby I came across the grave of one of the victims of AI182. So sad.

Rest in Peace AI182.
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I had a colleague who was waiting at LHR for AI182 to arrive so he could continue his trip to meet with AI engineering at Bombay. He had to find other means to get there.

When men resort to such hideous behavior, virtually the whole world sees them as criminals...

...except for those equally hideous few seeing them as heros.
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Also in my thoughts today when I saw the item on BBC News Online - a close family friend of my father's lost his girlfriend (cabin crew) on that flight - may she and the other souls lost RIP.

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Well, didn't the alleged AI 182 perps cop a walk a few months ago in Canada?

I have similar memories of the Lockerbie crash...
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Yes they did. The guy who allegedly planned the whole operation was nabbed on another charge and was extradited to India, where he suffered a fatal accident.

I once watched an interview with the then head of the Indian Security Service, who was himself a Sikh. He said there had to have been a cover-up by the Canadian Security Service, because nobody could have been that incompetent.
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A fruit cake by the name of John Barry Smith, blamed the crash on a cargo door fault; as he has for TWA 800, Pan Am at Lockerbie and the brake up of China Air 747.
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Well, didn't the alleged AI 182 perps cop a walk a few months ago in Canada?
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Yes , they did. Someboy started thread here on PPRUNE after that happened, and it was banished by the MODS into Jet Blast!

Hope this thread doesnt suffer the same fate!
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Was pottering around in a Skylane off the Dingle Peninsula a few months back. As we turned around the Skellig Rocks on a crystal clear day the shimmer off the Atlantic turned my thoughts to this very same subject.

As pointed out by Hot Dog, this was no cargo door fault but one of the early examples of the risks we all face every day when we go to work.

RIP
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The pilots...

Both Captain and Co-Pilot were accomplished aviators. They were sikhs too:-
Commander for that flight:Capt. Hanse Singh Narendhra.
Co-pilot Capt. Satwinder Singh Bhinder.
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AI 182: 23 June 1985

35 Years today since the downing of Air India 182, which will be marked by a ceremony in Cork.

From The Irish Times, 23 June 2020
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...mony-1.4286155
A commemorative event has been held annually at a memorial garden near Ahakista on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula in west Cork, which is attended by the families of those who died on Flight 182. [...] All 307 passengers and 22 crew were killed when at 8.13am on June 23rd, 1985, a bomb placed by Sikh terrorists exploded on board the Boeing 747, named Kanishka, about 160km off the southwest coast of Ireland.
Earlier closed thread here: https://www.pprune.org/aviation-hist...ight=india+182

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I remember this sad event well. Some of the lighter debris (overhead locker doors), I saw washed up on the Welsh coast at Pembrey sands. They were collected by the Police.
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A memory of the days when Nimrod aircraft provided SAR cover.
On 23 June 1985 Air India Boeing 747 Flt AI182, with 329 persons on board disappeared off the radar screens 100nm southwest of Fastnet. A Nimrod, XV232, crewed by 201 Sqn Crew 3 was scrambled to the last reported location and reported the sight of flotsam and un-inflated liferafts. The aircraft captain took on the role of Scene of Search Commander coordinating the activities of helicopters and surface ships. Over the next night and day 201 Sqn Crew 4, Crew 7 and Crew 3 also flew on the search task. During the operation a total of four 201 Sqn crewed Nimrods logged 96hrs 40mins, of these 21hrs 30mins were while “on task” in the search area.
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