A piece of wreckage being placed on the deck of Kreuzturm (Photo courtesy: V Ramachandran)

Kanishka Crash, 1985: How Metallurgy Helped Expose a Terrorist Attack

Former IISc metallurgist V Ramachandran helped establish that a mid-air explosion brought down the plane   V Ramachandran recognised the fragment from a stantion, one of the structural elements used to support the fuselage of the aeroplane. But it didn’t look normal: the aluminium tube had fractured and curled inwards by almost a full circle. […]