The story of IC-814 plane hijacking
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 is in the news these days. The reason for the discussion is Netflix’s recently released 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 who was on board the plane.
Pooja Kataria was travelling with her husband
Pooja Kataria, a resident of Chandigarh, was travelling with her husband in the IC 814 flight. Her husband Rakesh Kataria was murdered by terrorists by slitting his throat. Pooja Kataria gets very emotional remembering that painful incident that happened 25 years ago.
There were 5 terrorists inside the plane
Narrating the incident of hijacking of IC 814 plane, Pooja Kataria 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 on board the plane at that time.
The terrorists asked the passengers to keep their heads down
Pooja 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 was friendly, asked the passengers to play ‘Antakshari’.
The terrorists revealed their names as Bhola and Shankar
Pooja Kataria told in her personal experience that a terrorist named ‘Doctor’ gave many speeches on converting to Islam. The names of other terrorists were ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’. She said that perhaps these were codeword names of terrorists.
Where did the Indian Government go wrong?
Regarding the controversy of IC 814 webseries, the victim Kataria said that it has been made for entertainment purposes. She does not know why people are getting angry? Perhaps the Indian government could have tried to launch a commando attack on the plane in Amritsar. After this, this hijacked plane could not fly outside India.
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