The World - News from Oct. 3, 1985
Efforts to salvage vital wreckage from an Air-India jumbo jet that crashed in the ocean off Ireland will start Tuesday, the Press Trust of India reported. The news agency quoted New Delhi officials as saying that investigators will be trying to learn why the plane crashed on a flight from Montreal to New Delhi last June, killing all 329 on board. The Boeing 747’s four engines have been recovered, but films of the ocean floor have shown 300 separate pieces of wreckage scattered over a four-mile area, 6,700 feet down.
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