The World - News from Oct. 27, 1985
A body was recovered from the wreckage of the Air-India jetliner that crashed off the Irish coast four months ago, killing all 329 aboard, investigators said. The body, still strapped in a seat in the front passenger section, was the first found in the wreckage since the initial search operation immediately after the June 23 crash of the Boeing 747. A Canadian Coast Guard officer said the section of the fuselage that contained the corpse was hoisted more than a mile from the Atlantic seabed to the surface. Investigators have failed to produce evidence of the cause of the crash, initially believed to have been due to a bomb.
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