What the records say
- When
- 30 Jan 1971
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 33.99° N, 74.77° E
- Description
- hijacking of Indian Airlines domestic passenger airliner
1971 Indian Airlines hijacking
Aviation incident
On 30 January 1971, an Indian Airlines Fokker F27, named Ganga, flying from Srinagar to Jammu, was hijacked by two Kashmiri separatists belonging to the National Liberation Front (NLF). The aircraft was flown to Lahore Airport in Pakistan, where the passengers and the crew were released, and was burnt down three days later. The hijackers were later identified as Hashim Qureshi and his cousin Ashraf Qureshi.
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