AIR INDIA
How it happened: The bombing of Flight 182
Last Updated: Thursday, June 17, 2010 | 12:56 PM ET
The Canadian Press
Air India 182
Features
- Terry Milewski on the bombing's 25th anniversary
- Analysis: Terry Milewski on the report
- Key characters
- The victims list
- History of the bombing
- Inquiry FAQs
- Shyla Aurora: Portrait of a victim
- Sikh politics in Canada
Timelines
- Interactive: How the bombing happened
- The investigation: 1985-2001
- The trial: 2001-05
- After the trial: 2005-'06
- The inquiry: 2006-'08
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THE 2005 VERDICTS
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Air India Flight 182 went down in the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland on June 23, 1985. All 329 people aboard were killed, including 280 Canadians. A separate luggage bomb destined for a second Air India flight killed two Japanese baggage handlers at Tokyo's Narita airport the same day.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Major, who led the inquiry into the bombings, referred to it as the "worst mass murder in Canadian history."
The following graphic looks at the series of events on that tragic day.
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