Incident Date:
June 23, 1985
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Dashmesh Regiment
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Airports & Aircraft(Aircraft (not at an airport))
Canadian Target:
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 329 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 2 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "06/23/1985: Air India flight 182, en route from Toronto to Bombay via Montreal, London, and New Delhi disappeared from Shannon Airport radar after a bomb exploded at 9,400 meters (31,000 feet) altitude, 144 kilometers from the Irish coast. The Boeing 747 carried 329 people. Of the passengers aboard 279 were Canadians, seven were Americans, and most of the rest were Indian. An hour earlier a bomb placed in a suitcase aboard Canadian Pacific Airlines flight 003, en route from Vancouver to Tokyo with 374 passengers and 16 crew members, exploded after being unloaded at Tokyo Narita International Airport. The baggage aboard the Canadian Pacific flight had not been given X-ray surveillance for explosives. The report accused two Sikh extremists-Lal Singh and Annand Singh-of having placed the bomb on board. Both Singh brothers had booked tickets on flight 182; however, checking luggage on the flight for Bombay, neither of them had taken flight 182. The report also implicated the brothers in the explosion at the Tokyo airport. On 10/27/2000, RCMP officers in Vancouver arrested Ripudaman Singh Malik, 54, a millionaire who ran a Vancouver radio station, and Ajaib Singh Bagri, 51, a sawmill worker from Karnloops, British Columbia, for the murder of 329 people on board Air India flight 182. They each faced eight charges, including first-degree murder, conspiracy, and attempted murder. On 03/16/2004, after a four year trial, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Josephson acquitted Indian-born Canadian Sikhs Ripudaman Singh Malik, 58, and Ajaib Singh Bagri, 55, on murder and other charges in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. They were also acquitted of the bombing at Tokyo's Narita airport. "
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 437."
2) RCMP Chronology. p. 13.
3) GTD 1970-2012 data file
4) RAND
5) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume II 1984-1987. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 232-233; Mickolus, Edward F. and Susan L. Simmons. (2002). Terrorism, 1996-2001: A Chronology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 453-454; Mickolus, Edward F. (2008) Terrorism, 2005-2007: A Chronology. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International. p. 176."
6) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 176"
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