LONDON: A Vancouver firm of deep-sea experts is part of another search into the murky depths off Ireland to shed light on an Air India crash six years ago.
Led by the RCMP, a team of 35 diving specialists and seamen were loading ‘equipment onto their ship at Lorient, France and planning to steam to the crash site in the Irish Sea within days.
Ate site, an unmanned submersible, connected to the mother ship the Abeille ‘Supporter will send more than 2,000 meters 6,500 feet o collect and photograph ‘wreckage of the jumbo jet.
The submersible is owned by Can Ocean Deep water Services, a Vancouver firm specializing in deep-water projects.
“’We do have in our minds certain things we want to recover and subject to laboratory analysis in Vancouver,” said RCMP Insp. Ron Dicks, head of the operation.
The Air India jumbo jet, bound from Toronto and Montreal to Bombay, exploded and crashed about 160kilometers southwest of Cork, Ireland onJune23, 1985, killing 329 passengers and crew.
The crash has been widely attributed to a bomb planted by Sikh militants but much of the physical evidence needed to support a court case is on the floor of the Irish Sea. Searches in 1985 and in 1989 failed to retrieve it
(But evidence uncovered by two senior Canadian journalists point an accusing finger directly at the Indian Government’s involvement in a bizarre attempt to bring Sikh militants a bad name worldwide. The two Zuhair Kashmiri and Brian McAndrew published their findings in the Book Soft Target which was promptly banned by the Indian Government-Ed WSN)
Dicks said the submersible a sort of high-tech submarine should be at work for about a month, depending on the weather. The submersible has the ability to scan ‘wreckage as wells retrieve pieces by using a mechanical am, Commands are given to the small vehicle from the ship through a connecting cord.(Canadian Press)
Article extracted from this publication >> July 12, 1991
