The appeal period will have to run out before any decisions are made but this statement by the son of one of those lost in the Air India disaster is entirely correct:
“This was not an aviation accident. This was not an in-flight accident,” said Susheel Gupta, an Ottawa lawyer who was 12 when his mother died on board Air India Flight 182 on a June morning in 1985. “This was murder, pure and simple,” said Gupta. “Murder in any system of justice demands just that – justice. And if the murder of 329 innocent people … doesn’t deserve a public inquiry, then we ask: what does?”