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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S2: Bomb On Board - Trailer

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

This season, co-hosts Ian Hanomansing and Johanna Wagstaffe investigate one of the largest unsolved mass murders on Canadian soil. A bomb exploded on Canadian Pacific Flight 21 July 8, 1965, killing all 52 people aboard - and yet no charges were laid. Uncover explores what happened that night, how it affects those left behind, and the unanswered question: Who put that bomb on the plane? Note: mayday call is a reenactment

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0:00.0

So you meet a woman online. I love it. I just love it. But it turns out thousands of other people are in love with her too.

0:07.0

Janessa Brzezile.

0:10.0

One woman's image is being used by criminals to target innocent people looking for love online.

0:16.0

You win their hearts, you win their wallet.

0:19.0

Love Janessa, my wild quest to find her, the human face of a digital con, available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

This is a CBC podcast.

1:00.0

Three staccato cries of Mayday and an eyewitness report of a mid-air explosion is about all that is known this morning of the British Columbia Air disaster which yesterday claimed 52 lives.

1:11.0

I said, well I just wonder what a plane crash and she said, oh I just saw it on the TV and everyone was killed.

1:19.0

My mum was on that plane.

1:22.0

It repelled, yet it attracted. There was an order which nobody mentioned which is similar to that of burning hair.

1:31.0

It's remarkable to me that a human being could decide to blow up a plane full of strangers. So many lives were impacted by this.

1:41.0

It carried 46 passengers and a crew of six. There were no survivors.

1:46.0

I really want to know what happened and it makes me extraordinarily angry but it's always been a big secret.

1:52.0

You look at the four leading suspects.

1:55.0

Gambler on plane insured for 125,000 jury told.

2:00.0

He had one or two murder charges against him and was acquitted. They knew what had happened but they didn't know why.

2:06.0

He appeared to be a fairly normal boy, quote unquote single, who didn't have many friends.

2:11.0

We were told nothing.

2:13.0

All right now we're going to do the second explosion.

2:16.0

Three, two, one, fire.

2:22.0

We've learned more and more about this story and about this man that I wasn't sure even existed.

2:28.0

But Joe I found him today.

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