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  Air India Flight 182 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Air India Flight 182 was a Boeing 747 that exploded on June 23, 1985 while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 82 were children and 280 were Canadian citizens.
Singh made reservations for two flights on June 22: one for "Jaswand Singh" to fly from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Montreal on Canadian Pacific Air Lines (CP) 086, and one for "Mohinderbel Singh" to fly from Vancouver to Tokyo on CP 003, and to there connect with Air India flight 301 to Bangkok.
It claims that, but for the flight delay, the bomb was scheduled to go off on the ground after the flight reached Heathrow, just as the bomb at Narita detonated on the ground there.
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 Encyclopedia: PSA Flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
PSA Flight 182 was a Pacific Southwest Airlines commercial flight that flew on a Sacramento-Los Angeles-San Diego route.
Following a mid-air collision, the flight crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, killing all 135 on board, plus the two men on board a small aircraft and seven persons on the ground, on September 25, 1978.
All 128 passengers and 7 crew members on Flight 182, 2 on board the Cessna and 7 people on the ground were killed.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/PSA-Flight-182   (1052 words)

  
 AirDisaster.Com: Special Report: Air India Flight 182
A large expadriate Indian community had settled in Canada and Flight 182 was over three quarters full with 307 passengers who were mostly returning on a visit to India to their adopted country.
Flight 182's routeing then proceeded up the mouth of the Bristol Channel, on across the West Country to the VOR radio beacon at Ibsley, and from there it would continue on to London.
Singh had not been confirmed on Flight 182 because of overbooking at the time of reserving his seat, but he was wait-listed for the trip.
www.airdisaster.com /special/special-ai182.shtml   (2667 words)

  
 psa flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a flight that flew on a Sacramento, California-Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles-Lindbergh Field, San Diego route.
The flight crashed by San Diego, killing everyone on board plus two on a small aircraft and 7 on the ground on September 25, 1978.
At around 9:00am on that day, N533PS, a Boeing 727-214 on Flight 182, was over the North Park neighborhood of San Diego, beginning its final approach into Lindbergh Field.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /psa_flight_182.html   (191 words)

  
 Air India Flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The flight was bombed on Montreal to London leg on June 23 1985 31 000 feet (9500 m) above Atlantic Ocean South of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
Singh a seat on Canadian Pacific Airlines' (CP) flight from Vancouver International Airport in British Columbia to Toronto Ontario requesting that his suitcase be transferred Air India Flight 182 (a Boeing 747-237B VT-EFO nicknamed Kanishka).
In October 2000 the RCMP arrested Ripudaman Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri on charges murdering the passengers and crew of Air flight 182 and the two baggage handlers Tokyo as well as conspiracy to commit of the passengers of Air India flight scheduled to depart from Tokyo.
www.freeglossary.com /Air_India_Flight_182   (920 words)

  
 Air India Flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Air India Flight 182 was a flight that flew on a Toronto Pearson International Airport, Mississauga, Ontario - Montreal-Mirabel 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.
The flight was bombed on the Montreal to London leg on June 23, 1985 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
Singh reserved a seat on Canadian Pacific Airlines' (CP) flight from Vancouver International Airport in British Columbia to Toronto, Ontario, requesting that his suitcase be transferred to Air India Flight 182 (a Boeing 747-237B, VT-EFO, nicknamed Kanishka).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/air_india_flight_182   (1004 words)

  
 PSA Flight 182 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All 128 passengers and 7 crew members on PSA Flight 182, both men on board the Cessna and 7 people on the ground were killed.
The PSA Flight 182 disaster remains the single worst aircraft accident in California history.
One of the victims on board PSA Flight 182 was Alan Tetelman, president of Failure Analysis, enroute to investigate a U.S. Navy plane crash.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PSA_Flight_182   (479 words)

  
 Air India Flight 182
The flight was bombed on the Montreal to London leg on June 23, 1985, killing all on board.
At 0015 GMT on June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 departed Toronto for Montreal Mirabel 1 Hour and 40 Minutes late.
In 1992, Parmer was killed by police in Punjab, India, and was never formally brought to trial for his role in the 329 deaths.
www.fact-index.com /a/ai/air_india_flight_182.html   (772 words)

  
 Luchtzak Aviation :: View topic - VT-EFO Flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The flight disintegrated at altitude and the wreckage was scattered along a nine-mile swath of the ocean at 6,000 feet.
If they failed to board the bag at Vancouver Airport for Flight 182, the backup plan was to change the timer and check in the bag for a flight which was to connect with Air India Flight 301 in Tokyo.
The destruction of Air India Flight 182 in the air was the result of a horrific miscalculation.
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 Air India Flight 182 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On February 10, 2003 Reyat plead guilty to constructing the bomb used on Flight 182 and received a ten year sentence.
Singh requested that his suitcase, a dark- (An orange of low brightness and saturation) brown, hard sided (additional info and facts about Samsonite) Samsonite suitcase, be transferred to Flight 182.
At 1618 GMT, the CP Air flight to (The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)) Toronto departed without Mr.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ai/air_india_flight_182.htm   (2461 words)

  
 PSA Flight 182
My sister was a flight attendant for PSA and this was one of her routes.
A sister whose a flight attendant (I notice my voice begins to quiver) her name is Laurie Ross, was she.
There's an anticipation, nervousness and excitement on board flight 182 as the plane readies for landing.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ROBERT_ROSS_3/psa.htm   (737 words)

  
 PSA182 - Balboa Park crash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At this point, 182 was descending to 3,200ft on an easterly heading.
Initial NTSB reports blamed the crew of flight 182 for not maintaining visual separation after they were instructed to do so from Approach Control.
Controllers, however, stated that, since 182 had reported having the traffic in sight, they did not feel necessary to issue altitude restrictions to either aircraft.These factors caused the NTSB to to revise it rulings, finding both crew error and Air Traffic Control failure as probable cause.
www.eltoroairport.org /news/psa182.html   (570 words)

  
 Canadian Police Charge Suspects in Air India Bombing
The downing of Air India Flight 182 on 23 June 1985, off the coast of Ireland killed all 329 people on board, making it the deadliest air disaster in aviation history.
Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, was traveling from Montreal and Toronto to London, and then on to New Delhi.
The authorities have long believed that the explosion that destroyed Flight 182 and the attempt to bomb the second Air India flight at Narita were the work of Sikh extremists living in British Columbia.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=511   (1355 words)

  
 Definition of PSA Flight 182
PSA Flight 182 was a Pacific Southwest Airlines commercial flight that flew on a Sacramento, California-Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles-Lindbergh Field, San Diego route.
The flight crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, killing everyone on board, plus two on board a small aircraft and 7 on the ground, on September 25, 1978.
The flight crew of the 727 failed to maintain the provisions of the "maintain visual separation" clearance, which includes immediately advising the controlling facility if visual contact is lost.
www.wordiq.com /definition/PSA_Flight_182   (555 words)

  
 The Death of Air India Flight 182 - By Salim Jiwa
Sam boarded the Air Canada flight out of Vancouver with the Uppal family, never suspecting that less than 24 hours later Perviz would receive a phone call from family members in England to tell her that he wouldn't be able to keep his promise to be with her.
The man was insisting that his bag should be checked through all the way to India with Flight 182 although he himself only had a confirmed reservation as far as Toronto on CP Flight 60.
Both flights carried travelers who were on their way to connect with Air India and meet their loved ones in that far-off land, but the latter one, CP60 was also carrying the instrument of their destruction.
www.flight182.com /book.htm   (2132 words)

  
 AirDisaster.Com: Special Report: Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182
Flight 182 was flying the daily morning service of California's largest feeder airline from Sacramento to San Diego, via Los Angeles.
The primary cause of the disaster was that the crew of PSA flight 182 lost sight of the Cessna and did not tell San Diego ATC that they had done so.
The controllers failed to appreciate that PSA 182 had lost sight of the Cessna, or even that there was some confusion as to its position.
www.airdisaster.com /special/special-psa182.shtml   (746 words)

  
 San Diego Stories | 2005: Remembering Flight 182
Flight 182 continued its descent as the Cessna ascended.
Flight 182 was his weekly commute flight from the Bay Area to San Diego.
Even with the multitude of avation disasters that have occured in the world since PSA Flight 182 I remember that particular one, even though I was on the opposite side of the country.
www.sandiegostories.com /archives/2003/09/remembering_fli.html   (3992 words)

  
 Air India Flight 182 - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The luggage exploded as it was being transferred to an Air India flight, killing two of the baggage handlers in Narita.
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.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Air_India_Flight_182   (385 words)

  
 The downing of Air India Flight 182 - "That Was Then..." - CBC Archives
However, the flight left Toronto an hour and 40 minutes late and was still in the air when the bomb detonated.
• The bomb on Flight 182 was in a suitcase that had been checked on a connecting flight in Vancouver by a man named M. Singh.
He was not on the flight to Toronto, and his bag was transferred to Flight 182 even though he wasn't a confirmed passenger.
archives.cbc.ca /400d.asp?id=1-70-736-4455-11   (745 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
All 329 people aboard Flight 182 were killed when the Boeing 747 crashed off the Atlantic coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985.
Relatives of least one of the victims were also in the court, but did not speak to reporters, although the son of one of the men killed on Flight 182 expressed surprise at the plea and the sentence.
The Flight 182 explosion was the world's deadliest act of aviation sabotage until the Sept. 11 attacks, when hijackers flew airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, killing about 3,000 people.
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 Encyclopedia: Air India Flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining.
June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining.
Talwinder Singh Parmar was born in the Punjab, India on February 26, 1944.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Air-India-Flight-182   (5078 words)

  
 Air India bombing, racism and multiculturalism
On March 16, Ripudaman Singh Malek and Ajaib Singh Bagri were found not guilty by a British Columbia court of their alleged participation in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985.
The flight originated in Canada and most of the 329 people who lost their lives were Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada who had homes, loved ones and lives in this country.
But given the way that we view multiculturalism, it is no wonder that Mulroney and many other Canadians viewed the bombing of Flight 182 as a tragedy that befell people of another country.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/weinreb032205.htm   (770 words)

  
 PSA Flight 182   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a flight that flew on Sacramento California - Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles- Lindbergh Field San Diego route.
The flight crashed by San Diego killing everyone on board plus two a small aircraft and 7 on the on September 25 1978.
At around 9:00am on that day N533PS Boeing 727-214 on Flight 182 was over the Park neighborhood of San Diego beginning its final approach into Lindbergh A Cessna being flown by a student pilot the right wing of Flight 182 sending crashing into the neighborhood below.
www.freeglossary.com /PSA_Flight_182   (282 words)

  
 Air India Flight182 "Kanishka". A Dedication!
The ones who were part of the flight crew and the passengers, whose loss today are only felt and remembered by their friends and family.
Most of the passengers sat without their seat belts fastened and in the cockpit, flight purser Jamshed Dinshaw, who had continued working for the airline despite a 1978 Air India crash in the Arabian Sea that took the life of his sister, was standing with in-flight supervisor Sampeth Lazar.
As the remains of Kanishka, Air India Flight 182, sank to the bottom of the ocean, Shannon Air Traffic Control was still in the dark over the fate of the aircraft with which it had communicated just four minutes and ten seconds ago.
www.geocities.com /dedicated_to_kanishka   (3598 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: RCMP submits report in 1985 bombing of Air-India's flight 182
All 329 people on board Air-India flight 182, including 280 Canadians, were killed when the plane, bound from Canada to London, blew up over the coast of Ireland.
In June 1985, two bomb-laden suitcases were checked in for flights destined to connect with two Air-India flights.
He has been identified as a suspect in the flight 182 bombing.
www.rediff.com /news/1998/oct/16ai.htm   (319 words)

  
 AIR INDIA FLIGHT 182 | AIR INDIA CRASH | SALIM JIWA | AIR INDIA TRIAL
One ticket was for passenger M. Singh flying from Vancouver to Toronto on June 22, 1985 via CP Air Flight 060 and connecting with Air India Flight 182 in Toronto.
June 23, 1985: At exactly 6.13 (a.m.) GMT, a bag off-loaded from CP Flight 003 at Tokyo’s Narita Airport exploded as it was being taken to waiting Air India Flight 301.
for Flight 182, the backup plan was to change the timer and check in the bag for a flight which was to connect with Air India Flight 301 in
www.flight182.com   (1063 words)

  
 Reid Morden spy agency boss when Air India Flight 182 tapes destroyed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Some feel that the destroyed tapes and wiretaps were crucial evidence that could have led to a guilty charge in the trial of the accused on the crash of Flight 182.
The destroyed, could-be crucial evidence is not Morden’s only tie to Flight 182.
Flight 182, a Boeing 747 aircraft, blew up at an altitude of 31,000 ft. over the southwest tip of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard on June 23, 1985.
www.torontofreepress.com /2005/cover051205.htm   (529 words)

  
 Air India Flight 182 - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Soon after the Narita and Flight 182 bombings
In October 2000, the RCMP arrested Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri on charges of murdering the passengers and crew of Air India flight 182 and the two baggage handlers in Tokyo as well as conspiracy to commit murder of the passengers of Air India flight 301 scheduled to depart from Tokyo.
In 2001, they arrested Inderjit Singh Reyat who was the alleged bomb-maker of the device that blew up flight 182.
en.freepedia.org /Air-India_flight_182.html   (923 words)

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