1985 revisited: 131 bodies recovered from Air India disaster

A bomb placed on board Air India flight 182 by Sikh militants exploded off the Kerry/West Cork coast on June 23, 1985 and plunged it into the Atlantic. All 329 passengers and crew were killed. Here is the original report from the then 'Cork Examiner' on the morning after the explosion

The remains of victims from the Air India Flight 182 air disaster in June 1985, in a temporary morgue at Cork Regional Hospital (now Cork University Hospital). Picture: Denis Minihane

Monday, June 24, 1985

The air-sea search for bodies of the victims of the Air India disaster has been scaled down.