AI 182
23 Jun 1985 · Hijacking, Sabotage & Deliberate ActsAIR INDIA FLIGHT 182 — 'KANISHKA'
Boeing 747-200 · Air India · Image: Wikimedia Commons
Why it happened
Checked-bag bomb exploded mid-Atlantic
Baggage screening
Interline baggage reconciliation
Aircraft
Boeing 747-200
Air India
Route
Toronto–Pearson (YYZ), Canada
→ Delhi (DEL), India (via Montreal & London)
People
329 on board
329 fatalities
Date
23 Jun 1985
Flight crew
Captain: Hanse Singh Narendra
Category
Hijacking, Sabotage & Deliberate Acts
Bombs, hijackers, shootdowns, murder in the cockpit.
THE STORY
A bomb in a checked suitcase exploded at 31,000 ft off the Irish coast. 329 dead — the deadliest aviation terror attack before 9/11, plotted on Canadian soil.