The World - News from July 1, 1985

Irish air traffic controllers recorded “a dull bang, a gushing noise and finally a human shriek,” seconds before an Air-India jumbo jetliner went down in the Atlantic, killing all 329 aboard, the London Observer newspaper reported. But investigators have so far found no evidence to confirm that a bomb caused the June 23 crash and are “moving toward” the theory that the cause was aircraft failure or pilot error, it said. However, the Press Trust of India reported from London that metal fragments were found in the bodies of some of the victims, strenghtening suspicions of a bomb blast.