Militant admits killing 329 in Air India blast

A SIKH militant has admitted killing 329 people on board an Air India jet that was blown up 110 miles south of the Cork coast in 1985.

Inderjit Singh Reyat, who has already served 10 years in a British prison for his role in a blast at Tokyo's Narita Airport that occurred an hour before Air India Flight 182 went down, entered the guilty plea when he appeared in a Vancouver court yesterday.

The Air India disaster triggered the largest ever rescue mission off the Irish coast. The Irish navy and emergency services recovered 133 bodies from the sea.