Judgment due in 1985 Air India bombings

TWO men charged in the deadliest terrorist attack on a commercial airliner prior to September 11 will learn their fate in a Canadian courtroom today, as a judge delivers his verdict in the Air India bombings that killed 331 people off the coast of Cork.

On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 from Montreal to London, carrying passengers from Vancouver, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic. All 329 people on board, mostly Canadians, were killed.

An hour earlier, a bomb in baggage intended for another Air India flight exploded at Tokyo airport, killing two baggage handlers.