The Indo Daily: Forty years on, how the 1985 Air India disaster shook the Irish navy recovery team to their core
It was a popular route, with 307 passengers and 22 crew on board.
As the plane passed the south-west coast of Ireland, air-traffic controllers at Shannon Airport were in normal contact with the captain, but suddenly flight 182 vanished.
The jumbo jet had crashed killing all on board. 132 bodies were eventually recovered.
The Irish Navy were first to respond to the disaster with the vessel the LÉ Aisling, which was in the area on patrol.
'I put binoculars to my head and all I could see was the smoke. As we got closer, the first thing we saw then was the wheels of the aircraft, and then the bodies started coming up,' one of the Navy team said.
Who carried out this terror attack? What did they want to achieve? And for the members of the Irish Navy who retrieved 132 bodies from the sea, how did that day change their lives?
Today, on the Indo Daily, Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Terry Milewski, former news correspondent with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and by the Irish Independent's Saoirse Hanley, whose father was a member of the Navy crew who helped retrieve bodies after one of the world's deadliest terror attacks in history.
Forty years on, are we closer to understanding what happened on that fateful day in 1985?
The Indo Daily: Forty years on, how the 1985 Air India disaster shook the Irish navy recovery team to their core
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The Indo Daily: Forty years on, how the 1985 Air India disaster shook the Irish navy recovery team to their core
It was a popular route, with 307 passengers and 22 crew on board. As the plane passed the south-west coast of Ireland, air-traffic controllers at Shannon Airport were in normal contact with the captain, but suddenly flight 182 vanished. The jumbo jet had crashed killing all on board. 132 bodies were eventually recovered. The Irish Navy were first to respond to the disaster with the vessel the LÉ Aisling, which was in the area on patrol. 'I put binoculars to my head and all I could see was the smoke. As we got closer, the first thing we saw then was the wheels of the aircraft, and then the bodies started coming up,' one of the Navy team said. Who carried out this terror attack? What did they want to achieve? And for the members of the Irish Navy who retrieved 132 bodies from the sea, how did that day change their lives? Today, on the Indo Daily, Fionnán Sheahan is joined by Terry Milewski, former news correspondent with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and by the Irish Independent's Saoirse Hanley, whose father was a member of the Navy crew who helped retrieve bodies after one of the world's deadliest terror attacks in history. Forty years on, are we closer to understanding what happened on that fateful day in 1985? The Indo Daily: Forty years on, how the 1985 Air India disaster shook the Irish navy recovery team to their core Podcasts" />
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