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.

While I appreciate that justice must be done at all costs, I wondered whether some lawyers are making big bucks with these endless inquiries. I thought it had been resolved before. Some Indian put a bomb in the airplane for some stupid reason. What are the investigators trying to achieve now, after twenty something years?:confused:

Justice, maybe?

So naive Pigboat..., it's all about the money. I wonder how much of my tax dollars this settlement will cost me?

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I've being out of Canada for a while so only get the news in bits.
I'm really stunned to find out how much was known in advance.
I mean they were searching the plane and removing bags but let an unacompanied bag stay on!
Sad to say this inquiry will be followed by about 20 years of lawsuits against everyone but the people responsible.
Like international war crimes and other casuses this will just end up being the mother of all troughs for lawyers.

20driver

My, such cynicism in one so young. :p You're probably right though, however I liken it to overturning a rock and seeing which creepy-crawly, slimy things go scuttling away looking for another place to hide.

A couple of years after the event, I watched a TV news program, must have been W5 or The 5th Estate, in which the producers interviewed the head of Indian security, in New Dehli. I'll never forget the man's last remark, "There had to have been a cover-up. Nobody can be that incompetent. Nobody."

Sad to say in my experience bad luck and stupidity trump the brains required to cover up anything. I'll take incompetence over a cover up any day.

For the life of my given Air India knew about a threat why they allowed an unaccompanied bag onto the plane is just mind boggling.

The lawyers have got to be licking their chops.

20driver

An acquaintance was a very raw rating in the Irish navy (such that it is!) at the time, and they were sent out to pick up bits of people out of the sea off the Irish Coast for several days - no choice, no counselling afterwards, just suck it up and get on with it. A hell of a story, and I reckon the reason it has taken so long is that there is too much to hide on several sides. If you saw the coverage this gets in Indian papers currently, you would see just how big and important this still is. I don't want to sound naive and I'm sure money comes into it, and neither am I suggesting that people can get closure - but they really should get it finished off and put to bed ASAP for many people's sakes.

So far, the inquiry shows that they go hand in hand.

IMO, what we have seen so far, is a sort of naivité and incompetence, on the part of the different security agencies, and politicians involved, to deal with a threat originating from a handful of people from another culture. Lack of understanding, and failure to understand what was developing in a timely fashion.

One particular bit that struck me was in a CBC TV news report where they showed a gathering of people being drilled for hatred and death towards another group in a foreign language.

The threat did not take the weight it was supposed to have, due to ignorance, and maybe PC to some extent. When the event unfolded, ass covering kicked into high gear.