How Air India 182 Has Changed Canadian History

It was the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history. June 23rd, 1985, was the day all 329 Canadians including 86 children were tragically killed on their plane to India. Their lives ended because, Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi ordered an attack on the Sikh separatists that had taken over the holiest shrine in Amritsar, India. Three Sikh men in Vancouver decided to act on their anger and started their plan to bomb the air India flight. Their plan forever to bomb air india 182 changed Canadian history. Air India 182 has changed Canada's; security, law, international relations, culture, and politics. The bombing affected law in canada because so many mistakes were made; it caused airport security to be examined more efficiently; the bombing

The aircraft was “missing” from the screen of the men watching the many planes flying in the same direction in Ireland at around 8:14 (national geographic). The men in Ireland knew that it could have been a high-risk flight, so they called it in as missing within one minute when it normally would have been called in after 20 minutes of disappearing from the screen. At 12 pm that same day over 100 bodies were found in the ocean. Many were found in and around cork Ireland. Surprisingly Canadian owned cargo ships were the ones to have found the victims. Canada believed that this was an Indian tragedy. It was placed on India to solve what happened to these people. The Indian investigation team tried to do the best they could for an issue that should have been Canadian priority. They found out it was a bomb that ripped the plane apart by listening to the final words of the captains on the audio recording “black box” in the cockpit. They also figured out how the passengers died and where the bomb blew up. The terrorist attack was evidently not a “Canadian priority”. With all the mistakes made by the Canadian investigation team and how Canada placed everything on the Indian government, it was clear how little Canada really cared about the tragic event. The Canadian law was not the only ones who could have done better, but the airport security was at fault as

If all the mistakes made at the airport were avoided, the people on the plane would still be alive. It was in Vancouver where the bag was dropped off. The bomb was let on to the plane due to the x-ray machine being broken. Even though the security team knew it was a high-risk flight, they did not bother to do a thorough job checking the bags to see if they would be able to put them on the plane. They did use handheld devices that were to be waved over the bags and would “detect” anything thing that would not be passed onto the plane, but as we know now those devices failed many people. The other major mistake that should not have been made at the airport was that the bag was ever checked in the first place. A man that we know only by the name of M. Singh was the one who dropped off the bag. Witnesses at the airport said that Mr. M.Singh “bullied” the women at the baggage check until she did what he wanted (The Globe and mail). The flight was going to Toronto to pick up and drop off passengers and bags that were from Vancouver but M.Singh did not want his bag loaded off in Toronto. All luggage was to be loaded off in Toronto but because he ”bullied” her his bag was left on the plane. Anyone would be able to see the major mistakes made here allowed the attack to happen, and because it was in an airport flying to another country it has changed Canada's national relations