At 8:07 a.m. Sunday morning, the crew of Air India Flight 182 made a routine call to the control tower at Ireland's Shannon Airport. The flight, which originated in Toronto, was going just as planned. The plane was cruising at 33,000 feet above the North Atlantic, about 120 miles southwest of the Irish coast. The tower gave clearance to proceed to London's Heathrow Airport for refueling, and the crew promised to report back before landing. Then, just six minutes later, the Boeing 747 suddenly disappeared from radar screens. "One second it was there, and the next it was gone," said one...
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