July 22, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Plane Broke Apart

Indian Express

6 days ago

An analysis of the recordings of communications between the Air India jumbo and the air traffic control tower at Shannon airport in Ireland has indicated that the aircraft broke apart before crashing into the Atlantic. Paul Turner, an American expert investigating the crash, is quoted in a newspaper as saying that the tapes recorded at Shannon airport showed the plane's transmitter sent out radio impulses intermittently for five or six seconds after the digital flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder had stopped. That would indicate that the power supply to the recorders had been cut off suddenly.
Police Firing
Eleven persons were killed in Ahmedabad — nine of them in police firing in the Dariapur area — as violence continued to rock communally sensitive localities of the walled city for the fifth successive day. After a relatively peaceful night, trouble erupted when bombs were hurled and shots fired at a passing police vehicle. The police returned fire and nine persons were killed in the incident ,while four were admitted to hospitals with bullet injuries.
Flash Floods Toll
The death toll in flash floods and unprecedented rains in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh rose to 55 while major rivers in Bihar, fed by overnight heavy rains, are likely to worsen the flood situation in the state. In Uttar Pradesh, all major rivers were rising at different places but were still under the danger mark.
BJP Bats For Bomb
The Bharatiya Janata Party wants the government to develop 'our own'' nuclear bomb because it feels that the threat of a Pakistan N-bomb is 'real'. The party said the country could no longer afford to adopt a policy of drift and escapism in this 'serious matter'.