Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Remembering Kanishka

Do you know the single most deadliest terrorist attack on a Passenger Airplane, many of us would say its the September 11 attacks, but its not so.
On june 23rd 1985 an Air India flight flying from Canada to India was brought down by terrorist bombing near the shore of Ireland, the terrorists involved were from two Sikh terrorists group. the reason for the attack was supposed to be a retaliation of the attack on the Golden Temple by the Indian government during 1984. (before and aftremath of the assasination of Indira Gandhi)
All 329 on board died. But since this was not a heavy bomb, unlike in normal bomb attacks, none of the people died of burn injuries, whereas it is assumed that all the passengers were thrown into the air after the airplane broke into many peices (after its nose broke), and as people kept falling thru the atmosphere the force of the air hitting them was so much to take their life's off.

After sincere investigations for very many years only one person has been convicted by the Canadian government due to the lack of evidences.

pls refer to the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182 for more vivid details on this incident.