Air India Plane Crash 1985

Air india flight 101 was a scheduled air india passenger flight from bombay to london that accidentally flew into mont blanc in france on the morning of 24 january 1966.

Air india plane crash 1985. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of vor data one of the receivers being out of service. This video shows the incident of air india flight 182 which was destroyed midair due to a bomb explosion in 1985 while flying to. The air india flight was only 45 minutes from london heathrow when it suddenly disappeared from radar screens at 0816 bst.

1 6 nmi off the coast of bandra bombay now mumbai all 213 passengers and crew on board were killed. Air india flight 182 a boeing 747 200 was on a flight between montreal and mumbai with two stopovers in london and new delhi on june 23 1985. Air india is generally known for its strong safety record with only three crashes reported in the main company s history.

Flight 182 was en route from. On 23 june 1985 it was operated using boeing 747 237b registered vt efo it disintegrated in midair en route from montreal to london at an altitude of 31 000 feet 9 400 m over the atlantic ocean as a result of the explosion from a bomb planted by khalistani canadians sikh terrorists. The crash is believed to have been caused by the captain having become spatially disoriented after the failure of one of the flight instruments in the cockpit.

Notably the air india express flight no ix 334 from dubai with 190 on board overshot the tabletop runway at kozhikode airport while landing in heavy rains and fell into a valley 35 feet below and. On the wee hours of a sunday in 1985 when most of the country was sleeping over 300 people boarded a boeing air india flight 182 also known as kanishka at london heathrow airport. Five minutes after it took off and made contact to the ground it exploded mid air killing all the 329 passengers and the 22 crew members onboard.

In total there were 329 passengers on board. Air india flight 182 disaster passenger jet explosion off the coast of ireland on june 23 1985 that claimed the lives of all 329 passengers and crew members. The last one occurred in june 1985 when a bomb was detonated on a.

Air india flight 855 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed during the evening of new year s day 1978 about 3 km 1 9 mi. Air india jet crashes killing 329 a passenger jet has disintegrated in mid air off the coast of ireland killing all 329 people on board.