Indian Airlines flight IC 814 coming from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked on 24 December 1999. Five terrorists on board the plane took the plane from Amritsar to Lahore via Dubai and then landed it in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 is in a lot of discussion these days. The reason for the discussion is Netflix’s recent webseries. The name of this webseries is ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’. Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was hijacked on 24 December 1999, about 25 years ago. The entire story of the hijacking of the plane has been told by the victim Pooja Kataria on board the plane.
Pooja Kataria was traveling with her husband
Pooja Kataria, a resident of Chandigarh, was traveling with her husband in the IC 814 plane. The terrorists had slit the throat of her husband Rakesh Kataria and killed him. Pooja Kataria gets very emotional remembering that painful incident that happened 25 years ago.
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There were 5 terrorists inside the plane
Pooja Kataria narrated her ordeal about the incident of hijacking of IC 814 plane and said that there were 5 terrorists on board the plane. Half an hour after taking off from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, the terrorists announced that the plane had been hijacked. All the passengers inside the plane were terrified. There were 163 passengers including 11 crew members in the plane at that time.
The terrorists asked the passengers to keep their heads down
Puja Kataria said that the terrorists had asked all the passengers to keep their heads down. They did not even know that they were in Kandahar. All the passengers sitting in the plane were getting nervous. Inside the plane, a terrorist named ‘Burger’, who had a friendly behavior, asked the passengers to play ‘Antakshari’.
The terrorists told their names as Bhola and Shankar
Puja Kataria told in her ordeal that a terrorist named ‘Doctor’ gave many speeches about adopting Islam. The names of other terrorists were ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’. She said that perhaps these were the codeword names of the terrorists.
