Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed Air India Flight 182.
The deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history would result in a trial that cost almost $60 million, a federal investigation report and a commission of inquiry. But only one suspect was ever convicted.
All 307 passengers and 22 crew aboard Flight 182 were killed on June 23, 1985. About an hour earlier, two baggage handlers also died when another bomb planted in the same conspiracy exploded at Narita Airport in Japan.
Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy in 2005 after a two-year trial in Vancouver. In 2022, Malik was shot dead in Surrey, B.C., by two paid hit men, whose motives have never been made public.
Inderjit Singh Reyat was convicted of manslaughter in 1991 in the Narita bombing. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the bombing of Flight 182 and admitted to building the bombs. He was later convicted of perjuring himself at the trial of Malik and Bagri. He was freed in 2016.
Sikh extremist Talwinder Singh Parmar was identified as having masterminded the attack by the judge in Malik and Bagri's trial, as well as the 2010 report from the commission of inquiry. Parmar was shot dead by Indian police in 1992.
A suspect known only as "Mr. X" has never been identified.
Here is a look back at the tragedy and its aftermath in photos.
A drifting piece of wreckage is seen floating in the water about 200 kilometres off the Irish coast on Monday, June 24, 1985, following the Air India Boeing 747 bombing which killed all 329 people on board on Sunday, June 23, 1985. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Caulkin and Redman
CAULKIN AND REDMAN
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the Air India bombings, is shown in a 1985 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
Inderjit Singh Reyat, left, and Talwinder Singh Parmar enter the courthouse in Duncan, B.C., Nov. 8, 1985. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
Sheriffs leave vehicles after arriving at a provincial courthouse garage in Vancouver on Monday, Oct. 30, 2000. Two men charged in the 1985 Air India bombing, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were believed to be in the two sherriff cars at right. The doors were closed before the two men left the vehicles. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
A reporter takes notes as a piece of the side of Air India Flight 182 hangs in the background in Vancouver on June 16, 2004. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
Two reporters look over the remains of Air India Flight 182 on Tuesday, June 16, 2004, that were reconstructed by investigators in January 2003. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
The remains of two burned seats from Air India Flight 182 sit on the floor of a warehouse in Vancouver, on June 15, 2004. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
Ajaib Singh Bagri leaves B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, with his daughter after he was found not guilty in the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, on Wednesday, March 16, 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Lam
RICHARD LAM
Ajaib Singh Bagri, right, his daughter Inderjit, centre, and lawyer Richard Peck, left, speak with reporters outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, after he was found not guilty along with Ripudaman Singh Malik in the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Lam
RICHARD LAM
Ripudaman Singh Malik is flanked by a sheriff, left, and an unidentified man, right, as he is escorted to a waiting car outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday, March 16, 2005, after being found not guilty in the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chuck Stoody
CHUCK STOODY
Ripudaman Singh Malik, centre, leaves B.C. Supreme Court with supporters after he was found not guilty in the 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, March 16, 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Lam
RICHARD LAM
Rattan Singh Kalsi holds a photo of his 21-year-old daughter Indira, who was killed in the 1985 Air India bombing, after meeting with Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan in Toronto, on Tuesday, April 12, 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
ADRIAN WYLD
Zehra Razvi, Yasmeen Patelk, Tehara Patel, and Fatima Tahir, left to right, relatives of Air India bombing victim Sugra Sadiq break down as the names of all the victims are displayed before Justice John Major's opening statement of the Inquiry looking into the 1985 fatal bombing of Air India Flight 182, in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson
Tom Hanson
A relative of a victim arrives for Justice John Major's opening statement of the inquiry looking into the 1985 fatal bombing of Air India Flight 182, in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson
Tom Hanson
Justice John Major, head of the Commission of the Air India Inquiry listens to testimony in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 1, 2007. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
FRED CHARTRAND
Lawyer Michael Anne MacDonald testifies at the Air India inquiry in Ottawa on Thursday, May 17, 2007. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
FRED CHARTRAND
Bal Gupta, whose wife was killed in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, takes notes alongside lawyers representing victims groups Jacques Shore, left, and Norm Boxall, as they listen to statements by lawyers as the inquiry wraps up in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson
Tom Hanson
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the Air India bombings of 1985, leaves the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C., after his bail was posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DARRYL DYCK
Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to the families of the victims of the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, at the memorial site in Toronto on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
FRANK GUNN
Karamjit Rai, left, and Manjit Bhatti pause to remember Daljit Singh Grewal – Rai's brother and Bhatti's brother-in-law, who died in the Air India bombing – during a memorial marking the 25th anniversary at a monument in Vancouver, on Tuesday, June 23, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DARRYL DYCK
Jagit Grewal, left, shows her two-year-old grandson Devin Grewal where her husband, Daljit Singh Grewal, and his grandfather's name is on a monument honouring those who died, during a memorial marking the 25th anniversary of the Air India bombing in Vancouver, on Tuesday, June 23, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DARRYL DYCK
A woman walks by the B.C. Supreme Court during the perjury trial for Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the Air India bombings of 1985, in Vancouver, on Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
DARRYL DYCK
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, and Prime Minster of India Narendra Modi visit the memorial site for victims of the 1985 Air India bombing in Toronto, on Thursday, April 16, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Nathan Denette
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