Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy
by Clark Blaise, Bharati Mukherjee
Category: Air-India Disaster, 1985

On June 23, 1985, a suitcase belonging to a Mr L. Singh exploded during baggage transfer at Narita Airport in Japan. The suitcase had arrived on a Canadian Pacific flight from Vancouver. Two baggage handlers were killed, four injured. Mr L. Singh had not boarded the CP flight. Fifty-five minutes later, 110 miles off the southwest coast of Ireland, a bomb exploded in the forward baggage hold of Air India Flight 182, bound for Bombay, from Toronto and Montreal. A Mr M. Singh had persuaded officials to accept his bag on a flight from Vancouver to transfer to Air India 182 in Toronto. He did not board the flight. The death toll of three hundred and twenty-nine stands as the worst at-sea air crash of all time.