Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from four nations were looking for clues to the midair disintegration of Air India Flight 182, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast on June 23 en route from Toronto to Bombay via London, killing all 329 people on board. Amid widespread theorizing that a terrorist bomb aboard the Boeing 747 had caused the accident, investigators were considering other explanations, including the possibility that a spare engine being carried under the plane's right wing might have had something to do with the crash. Although hopes had been slim that the two flight recorders could be found...
...Japan, there were indications that a sophisticated timing device may have tripped the explosion of a bomb in a bag unloaded from Canadian Pacific Flight 003. The blast killed two baggage handlers and injured four others at Tokyo's Narita International Airport just 53 minutes before the Air India plane crashed. Speculation that the two events were connected was fed by the timing, the fact that both flights had originated in Canada and suspicions that Sikh extremists might have engineered the incidents in order to strike out at the Indian government. But at week's end investigators were forced...
...From San Francisco to Cairo, airports tightened security arrangements, stepping up passenger, baggage and cargo inspections. After an initial flurry of reservation cancellations, these precautions seemed to calm travelers' fears. Still, the spate of bomb threats in the U.S. and overseas, all false alarms, forced several airliners to delay takeoffs or make emergency landings. Passengers did not complain. "I'd rather spend two hours in line here than end up in the Atlantic Ocean," said David Murley of Toronto as he headed for London...
...been downed by a bomb that was either carried aboard by a suicidal terrorist or planted on the 747 before it took off for London. Another scenario suggested that the extra 9,000-lb. jet engine being carried back to India for repairs might have dislodged, forcing the aircraft down. Such ferrying of an engine, in addition to the 747's four turbo fanjets, is considered routine airline practice, and Boeing officials dismissed the theory as "extremely farfetched." Had the engine caused a problem, they said, the pilot would have had time to make a Mayday call. Instead, the plane...
...terror bomb scenario came mainly from Indian officials, who suspected that the incident might have been connected to the baggage explosion in Tokyo. The link, they suggested, might be two Sikh extremists, Ammand Singh, 32, and Lal Singh, 25. The two men are wanted by the FBI in connection with an alleged conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during his visit to the U.S. last month. Ammand Singh, according to Indian officials quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail, had flown to Toronto before the ill-fated Air India flight set course for London, while Lal Singh had traveled...