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      • On the afternoon of December 24, 1999, five men hijacked an aircraft of the government-owned Indian Airlines. The hijacking would come to an end more than a week later, after negotiations, the release of three terrorists, the involvement of the Taliban, and the death of one of the 179 passengers onboard.
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  2. Sep 16, 2024 · On December 24, 1999, Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route from Kathmandu to Delhi, was hijacked by members of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen terrorist group. The hostage situation lasted for a week – the longest hijack in Indian aviation history.

  3. Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814, was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The passenger flight, en route from Kathmandu to Delhi, was taken over shortly after it entered the Indian airspace at about 16:53 IST.

  4. Aug 29, 2024 · The attack ended following a 50-minute shootout, where the Indian forces killed five of the terrorists, one of whom has been identified as Burger. Reportedly, the plan went wrong when Burger didn’t receive the call for confirmation, which he was supposed to receive from the leader of their mission.

  5. Aug 30, 2024 · What was the IC-814 aircraft hijack, the subject of a new Netflix series? On the afternoon of December 24, 1999, hijackers gained control of a Kathmandu-New Delhi flight. The hijack ended on December 31 with India releasing three terrorists in Kandahar, Afghanistan, raising questions about the government’s handling of the crisis.

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  6. Sep 5, 2024 · Indian Airlines flight IC 814 was hijacked in 1999 and taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan. The hijackers initially demanded that the coffin of a terrorist, Sajjad Afghani, be handed over to them. (Image: AFP)

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  7. Aug 30, 2024 · Indian Airlines Flight 814 or IC814, bound from Kathmandu to Delhi, was hijacked by five masked men, thrusting not just its passengers, but entire India, into a week of dread and turmoil. The crisis, which unfolded over seven agonising days, wrote itself into the annals of India’s darkest aviation moments.

  8. IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller drama television mini series about the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 in 1999. It is directed by Anubhav Sinha and written by Adrian Levy and Trishant Srivastava. [1]