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Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- General
- Hindustan Times
Air India flight 182 archive opens in Canada
Toronto: A formal archive memorialising the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182, the Kanishka by pro-Khalistan terrorists, has been launched at McMaster University located in the city of Hamilton, in Ontario. The archive contains both physical and digital material including testimonies from the family members of what remains the worst terrorist incident in Canada's history. The initiative has been led by McMaster professor Chandrima Chakraborty, who said, 'The goal of the Air India archive is to address the silencing of the Air India tragedy in Canadian history and public memory.' She elaborated, 'The objective is to educate the public about the grief of families, preserve and honour the memories of those who perished on Air India Flight 182, and create avenues for memorialisation and ongoing research.' The university is also hosting a two-day conference this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Air India bombings. Professor Chakraborty said, 'The AI tragedy has been called a Canadian tragedy, yet the grief of those who lost loved ones continue to be unacknowledged in Canadian history and public memory. Perhaps, marking the 40th anniversary through such free, public events such as this conference that centres the voices and experiences of families can create greater public awareness and enable informed engagement with this historical event.' As the conference organisers, Chakraborty, Amber Dean, also a professor at McMaster, and Maia Lepingwell-Tardieu, a PhD candidate there, stated, 'June 23, 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the Air India bombings. Although this event has been described as a Canadian tragedy that resulted in the mass murder of 331 people, it remains little known and seldom remembered in our national consciousness.' The archive is being hosted at McMaster University's Research Collections and has the support of the university's library's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections and the Sherman Centre of Digital Scholarship. 'The Air India archive is a community co-created public memory archive that will preserve and honor the memories of those who perished on AI Flight 182 and document the experiences and memories of Air India families and critical witnesses,' Professor Chakraborty said. Physical items include badges of the pilot and co-pilot, memorial books published by the Air India victims' families, other works n the subject, seven volumes of the public inquiry report, which was released in June 2010, among other items. However, Professor Chakraborty said the project has funding till March next year but will require support in the form of donations to sustain it and allow it to expand. 'I have boxes and boxes of materials that I will not be able to digitize without receiving substantial funding to continue the work of digitising materials,' she said. The Kanishka bombing claimed 329 lives and two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Japan were killed when another bomb on another Air India flight exploded there. The 40th anniversary of Canada's worst terror episode comes at a time when pro-Khalistan separatism has been largely normalised by Canada's political leadership and in the country's mainstream media and its link to extremism largely ignored.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Yahoo
Responding police officer to Flight 182 sees similarities with DC plane crash
SAN DIEGO (FOX5/KUSI) — Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 went down in North Park nearly 50 years ago, but hearing the news about the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night reminded one first responder of the moments he first jumped into action. 'It was like a movie scene. It didn't — It almost didn't look real because there was so much carnage and so much destruction and disaster that it was overwhelming to walk up and see that,' said retired San Diego police detective Rick Carlson. Carlson was one of the first to respond to the scene were the aircraft went down near Dwight and Nile Street on Sept. 25, 1978 after colliding midair with a private Cessna plane while on approach to San Diego International Airport, then named Lindenberg Field. The Cessna fell near Polk Avenue. No survivors after collision between American Airlines jet, Army helicopter near DC The crash killed 135 passengers inbound from Sacramento, as well as a number of bystanders who were on the ground when the aircraft fell. The number of casualties made it the deadliest plane crash in U.S. history at the time. 'Where we are walking at right now, this was an entire debris field. Several houses or parts of the houses were gone. One house was completely gone. This whole area was engulfed in flame,' said Carlson, as he walked down the street with FOX 5/KUSI. When Carlson heard about the American Airlines plane crashing into the Blackhawk helicopter Wednesday night, he said he saw many similarities to the 1978 crash. 'It was a small plane — it was smaller than the helicopter, but it was a training flight,' he explained. 'There was inattention on the small plane, they got off course. The large plane — the PSA jet — was on final approach. There was distractions in the in the cockpit because they had people who are deadheading, and those people were distracting the pilots as they were coming on final approach. And there was warnings given by the people that were in charge. They were telling them there was another plane in the area, but they spotted another small plane as they may have done in this one in Washington.' LISTEN: Audio captures air traffic control at moment of DC crash The investigation into what caused the D.C. crash is ongoing, but federal officials say the American Airlines plane was set to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the Army Blackhawk was on a training flight. The National Transportation Safety Board expects a preliminary report within 30 days. The focus of D.C. officials now is on recovery efforts along the Potomac River, which Carlson is all too familiar with. 'God be with you. It's a horrible thing to be going through. It's going to impact the rest of your life,' Carlson said when asked what he would say to the people in D.C. as they process this disaster. Carlson added many regulations were changed following the 1978 crash. He expects more to change to come in the wake of the D.C. crash. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Has a commercial flight ever crashed in San Diego?
Video above: The CEO of the San Diego Air & Space Museum discusses the recent American Airlines crash with KUSI. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — An Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet as it was landing at an airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday night and all 64 people aboard the commercial airliner were killed. Some are left wondering, has anything like this ever happened in San Diego? The short answer is 'yes.' This tragic incident may be triggering past traumas for some San Diegans who lost loved ones during a similar incident that occurred in North Park on the fateful day of Sept. 25, 1978. Just like the recent crash, a Pacific Southwest Airlines plane, known as PSA Flight 182, collided midair with a Cessna aircraft, according to an accident report filed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). RELATED: Video captures fiery crash between American Airlines flight and Army Blackhawk Fragments of that commercial flight, soaring in the sky nearly five decades ago, rained down from San Diego's airspace, with the plane ultimately crashing to the ground in North Park. The routine route between Sacramento and San Diego turned tragic, with a total of 144 people, including bystanders on the ground below, losing their lives due to the midair collision. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the 1978 accident was 'the failure of the flight crew of PSA Flight 182 to comply with the provisions of a maintain-visual separation clearance, including the requirement to inform the controller when they no longer had the other aircraft in sight.' Also contributing to the accident were particular air traffic control procedures. As explained by NTSB, they 'authorized the controllers to use visual separation procedures to separate two aircraft on potentially conflicting tracks when the capability was available to provide either lateral or vertical radar separation to either aircraft.' RELATED: Trump holds briefing on plane crash near DC, suggests DEI programs contributed As a result of commercial airliner going down in San Diego, NTSB recommended that the FFA do the following: Implement a Terminal Radar Service Area TRSA at the then-Lindbergh Airport. Review procedures at all airports which are used regularly by air carrier and general aviation aircraft to determine which other areas require either a terminal control area or a terminal control radar service area and establish an appropriate one. Use visual separation in terminal control areas and terminal radar service areas only when a pilot requests it, except for sequencing on the final approach with radar monitoring. Re-evaluate its policy with regard to the use of visual separation in other terminal areas. A cemented memorial honoring the victims of the PSA Flight 182 crash was installed in North Park just last year, creating a space where loved ones can gather to honor those lost in the incident. It's located at the intersection of Dwight and Nile streets, where the crash occurred. The cause of the recent collision between an American Airlines jet and Army helicopter remains under investigation. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
