June 28, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Plane Crash Probe
Investigators said that faint, intermittent signals have been detected near where an Air India jumbo jet crashed, but it is not certain if they are being emitted by the missing flight recorders. A spokesman at the British Royal Navy's command centre at Northwood, north west of London, confirmed this. If the flight recorders can be recovered from the mile-deep seabed, they could provide information on the cause of the crash.
As Canadian authorities continued their hunt for two Sikhs for questioning in connection with the crash of an Air India jumbo jet and a Canadian Pacific Airline baggage explosion at Tokyo airport, a Vancouver Sikh lawyer said Lal Singh (one of the two suspects) had been seen in Vancouver as recently as three weeks ago. In an interview, Ujjwal Bosanjh, a spokesman for Sikh moderates in Vancouver, said it was accepted within the Sikh community that Lal Singh, and perhaps Ammand Singh were hiding in the city.
The MoS for Railways, Madhavao Scindia, formally announced the introduction of 'an absolutely new concept of serving wholesome and hygienic food to railway passengers.' A variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes, in consultation with the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), are to be served in hygienic aluminium foil wrappers.
With the ten more landslide deaths reported in Idukki high ranges, the death toll in Kerala's monsoon havoc this week has mounted to 45, reports received in Trivandrum said. Nine persons belonging to two families were crushed to death when huge boulders came down on their house.
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