Air India Flight 182: The Bombing the World Forgot and the Intelligence Failures that Let it Happen

On 23 June 1985, Air India Flight 182 disappeared from radar over the Atlantic Ocean. Moments earlier, a bomb hidden within checked baggage had destroyed the aircraft, killing all 329 people on board. It remains the deadliest act of aviation terrorism involving a Canadian aircraft and one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history.

Yet for many outside Canada and India, it has become the bombing the world forgot.

In this meticulously researched investigation, award-winning investigative author Bill Stewart examines the political tensions that led to the attack, the international conspiracy behind the bombing, the painstaking criminal investigation, the courtroom battles, the intelligence failures that shaped subsequent public inquiries and the reforms that transformed modern aviation security.

Drawing upon official reports, historical research and decades of accumulated evidence, this book separates established fact from speculation while honouring the memory of the 329 innocent lives lost on that June morning in 1985.

This is not merely the story of a terrorist attack.

It is the story of how a nation confronted tragedy, how investigators pursued truth across continents and how lessons written in unimaginable loss continue to protect travellers around the world.