Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21

(Conclusion)
The tragedy of Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, the deadliest ever terrorist attack on a commercial airliner, was in the news last month for its 40th anniversary.

But who remembers Canadian Pacific Airlines’ CP 21, a DC-6B that blew up in mid-air near 100 Mile House, B.C., killing all 52 passengers and crew, in July 1965?

Investigation narrowed it down to an explosive detonated in the left rear lavatory. But by whom?

Suspicion focused on several passengers, meaning that if so, the murderer also died in the crash. 

Next week in the BC Chronicles, the conclusion to what Global News has termed “one of Canada’s greatest aviation mysteries” that the CBC calls “the largest unsolved murder on Canadian soil”.  

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PHOTO: —Author’s Collection