What the records say
- When
- 24 Dec 1999
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 31.51° N, 65.85° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Indian Airlines Flight 814.
Summary
Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in what was considered to be India's worst and last plane hijacking
Indian Airlines Flight 814
1999 Indian aircraft hijacking
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 Indian airspace at about 16:53 IST.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Détournement du vol 814 d'Indian Airlines”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Угон A300 в Афганистан”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Es secuestrado el vuelo 814 de Indian Airlines con 190 personas y redirigido a Afganistán hasta el 31 de diciembre cuando se produce la liberación”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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