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| '''] Flight 182''' was a flight that flew on a ], ] - ], ] - ], ] - ], ] - Sahar International Airport (now ]), Bombay (now ]) route | '''] Flight 182''' was a flight that flew on a ], ] - ], ] - ], ] - ], ] - Sahar International Airport (now ]), Bombay (now ]) route | ||
| On ], ], two pieces of baggage were checked in at ] in ]. One of the pieces of luggage arrived at ] in ]. The luggage exploded as it was being transferred to an Air India flight, killing two of the baggage handlers in Narita. | On ], ], two pieces of baggage were checked in at ] in ]. One of the pieces of luggage arrived at ] in ]. The luggage exploded as it was being transferred to an Air India flight, killing two of the baggage handlers in Narita. | ||
| The second piece of baggage would up on Flight 182. It detonated 55 minutes after the Narita bomb went off. The ] on the route was blown-up mid-flight in a ] attack led by ] nationalists. The bomb went off as the aircraft was over the south-west coast of ], ]. | The second piece of baggage would up on Flight 182. It detonated 55 minutes after the Narita bomb went off. The ] on the route was blown-up mid-flight in a ] attack led by ] nationalists. The bomb went off as the aircraft was over the south-west coast of ], ]. | ||
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| The trial is now currently focusing around '''Inderjit Singh Reyat''' who was the alleged bomb-maker of the device that blew up flight 182. In 2003 he pled guilty to the murder of the 329 passengers. | The trial is now currently focusing around '''Inderjit Singh Reyat''' who was the alleged bomb-maker of the device that blew up flight 182. In 2003 he pled guilty to the murder of the 329 passengers. | ||
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Air India Flight 182 was a flight that flew on a Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Misassauga, Ontario - Dorval International Airport, Montreal, Quebec - London Heathrow Airport, London - Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi - Sahar International Airport (now Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport), Bombay (now Mumbai) route
On June 22, 1985, two pieces of baggage were checked in at Vancouver International Airport in Vancouver, British Columbia. One of the pieces of luggage arrived at New Tokyo International Airport in Narita. The luggage exploded as it was being transferred to an Air India flight, killing two of the baggage handlers in Narita.
The second piece of baggage would up on Flight 182. It detonated 55 minutes after the Narita bomb went off. The Boeing 747 on the route was blown-up mid-flight in a terrorist attack led by Sikh nationalists. The bomb went off as the aircraft was over the south-west coast of Cork, Ireland.
It killed 329 passengers, mostly Canadians, and was the largest terrorist attack ever committed against Canadian citizens. Some of the dead had survived the explosion but drowned in the Atlantic Ocean.
The subsequent Canadian investigation into the attack was notoriously slow, and was dogged by many charges of corruption and incompetence. Only in 2002 did the trial formally begin, and as of this writing is still ongoing.
The main suspect in the bombing was exiled Sihk nationalist leader Talwinder Singh Parmer who had allegedly plotted the attack while living in the Canadian province of British Columbia. He had been under longtime survielance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police due to suspicious activities.
In 1992 however, Parmer was killed while in India, and was never formally brought to trial for his role in the 329 deaths.
The trial is now currently focusing around Inderjit Singh Reyat who was the alleged bomb-maker of the device that blew up flight 182. In 2003 he pled guilty to the murder of the 329 passengers.