A request by relatives of the Air India disaster victims for a naval vessel to take them to the crash site on the first anniversary of the tragedy was rejected, according to a file from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
A document on the 1986 file, now held at the National Archives, said there was no vessel available to make the trip.
Air India Flight 182 was at 30,000 feet off the southwest coast of Ireland on June 23rd, 1985 when it was destroyed by a bomb, killing 329 people including 280 Canadians, 27 British citizens and 22 Indians. Only 131 bodies were recovered and these were brought to Cork Regional Hospital where postmortems were carried out.
In a handwritten letter to Sean Murphy of the Irish Tourist Board in Toronto, dated February 20th, 1986, Dr Yogesh C Paliwal, spokesman for the Flight 182 Victims’ Families Alliance, said a “real pilgrimage” to the crash site would be “a ray of bright light” for them in their grief.
02/01/17 Fiona Gartland/Irish Times
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A document on the 1986 file, now held at the National Archives, said there was no vessel available to make the trip.
Air India Flight 182 was at 30,000 feet off the southwest coast of Ireland on June 23rd, 1985 when it was destroyed by a bomb, killing 329 people including 280 Canadians, 27 British citizens and 22 Indians. Only 131 bodies were recovered and these were brought to Cork Regional Hospital where postmortems were carried out.
In a handwritten letter to Sean Murphy of the Irish Tourist Board in Toronto, dated February 20th, 1986, Dr Yogesh C Paliwal, spokesman for the Flight 182 Victims’ Families Alliance, said a “real pilgrimage” to the crash site would be “a ray of bright light” for them in their grief.
02/01/17 Fiona Gartland/Irish Times
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