{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Air India Flight 182 - Part 2: Fragmented clues, missed alarms, and a plot in motion","description":"It began as a scatter of warnings—a rumor here, a memo there, a knot of concern in a police report. No single alarm ever sounded. Instead, the danger built in fragments, and that is how Air India Flight 182 moved ever closer to catastrophe while the world around it stayed silent.\r\n\r\nIn the months leading up to June twenty-third, nineteen eighty-five, Canadian authorities were already uneasy. Intelligence and police tracked extremist rhetoric, especially among Sikh separatist networks, after the violent storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar the year before. The threat was no longer just words. Surveillance picked up hints of revenge. The focus shifted from the abstract to the disturbingly concrete: there were people, plans, and targets. But the system that handled these warnings was itself divided. Police, security agencies, and airport staff each had pieces of the puzzle, but no one had the full picture. Every agency held a clue, but there was no table to bring those clues together. In large systems, knowledge can exist and still not become action. The question was never if someone knew something—it was whether anyone knew enough, in time, and with the authority to stop what was coming.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/air-india-flight-182","author_name":"The Archive Network"}