Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 [multiple media] Archives / Collections and Fonds
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Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 [multiple media]
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Record information Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 [multiple media]
Date:2006-2010.Reference:R15534-0-0-EType of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:4817985Date(s):2006-2010.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:x m of textual records.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:The fonds consists of records collected and generated in the course of the Commission's deliberations including, for example, written statements, transcripts, exhibits, correspondence, and research.Biography/Administrative history:Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 : On 23 June 1985, a mid-flight bomb explosion killed all 329 passengers
and crew of Air India Flight 182. Fifty-nine minutes earlier, at Tokyo's Narita Airport, two baggage handlers were killed by an explosion of a bomb while off-loading luggage from a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight. The luggage had been destined for an Air India flight. Both bombs were planted in suitcases by the same group of Sikh terrorists.
Inderjit Singh Reyat was convicted of manslaughter for his involvement in the explosions, which were found to be part of a criminal conspiracy. In 2005, two accused were acquitted of the crimes. No other persons have been charged.
Issued 1 May 2006, P.C. 2006-293 established a public inquiry under Part 1 of the Inquiries Act and appointed John C. Major as its Commissioner. Major had been a Supreme Court justice, appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1992, and retired in December 2005.
The terms of reference spoke to the complexity of the investigation. The Commission was asked to review several reports, including the November 2005 report of the Honourable Bob Rae entitled, Lessons to Be Learned; the proceedings before the superior courts of British Columbia; the 1991-1992 Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) review of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) activities in regard to the destruction of Flight 182; the report of the Honourable Mr. Justice B.N. Kirpal of the High Court of Delhi of February 1986; the Aviation Occurrence Report of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board of January 1986; the 1985 report of Blair Seaborn entitled, Security Arrangements Affecting Airports and Airlines in Canada; and the reports prepared by the Independent Advisory Panel assigned by the Minister of Transport to review the provisions of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Act, the operations of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority and other matters relating to aviation security.
It was also asked to inquire into possible deficiencies in air security that failed to detect and prevent the terrorists' acts and with making recommendations to prevent similar acts from happening in the future. It was to determine if there had been deficiencies in the assessments of Canadian government officials of the potential threat posed by Sikh terrorism before or after 1985, or in their response to that threat, and whether changes in practices or legislation were required to prevent the recurrence of similar deficiencies in the assessment of terrorist threats in the future; if there had been problems in the cooperation between government departments and agencies in the investigation of the bombing either before or after 23 June 1985; the manner in which the Canadian government should have addressed the challenge, as revealed by the investigation and prosecutions in the Air India matter, of establishing a reliable and workable relationship between security intelligence and evidence that can be used in a criminal trial; whether Canada's existing legal framework provided adequate constraints on terrorist financing in, from, or through Canada, including constraints on the use or misuse of funds from charitable organizations; whether existing practices or legislation provided adequate protection for witnesses against intimidation in the course of the investigation or prosecution of terrorism cases; whether unique challenges presented by the prosecution of terrorism cases were adequately addressed by existing practices or legislation and, if not, the changes that would be needed to resolve the problems; whether further changes in practice or legislation were required to address the aviation security breaches associated with the bombing of Flight 182, particularly those relating to the screening of passengers and their baggage.
The inquiry submitted its final report, the Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Air India Flight 182, June 2010.Source:Government -
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