IC 814 Hijacked. The Inside Story

171 Pages·2014·1.39 MB·English

by  Anil Jaggia

IC814
HIJACKED!
Anil K. Jaggia, 58, operated hijacked flight
IC 814 as its Flight Engineer. He is Chief of
Flight Engineering with Indian Airlines, and
has 20,000 flight hours’ experience as Flight
Engineer. An Instructor and Examiner Flight
Engineer on the Airbus A300 aircraft, he
received his technical education at ATTI (Air Technical
Training Institute), Calcutta, and is also a graduate of the
35th Air Transport Course at Oxford, UK.

Saurabh Shukla, 27, IS an investigative
journalist with The Indian Express.· A Masters
in International Studies from the School of
International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, he was a British Chevening
Scholar at the Centre for Security Studies,
University of Hull, UK. He completed his second Masters
in Security Studies in 1999. While in UK he did a course
on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare. He has been
nominated as a fellow by 21st Century Trust, London.
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© Anil K. ]aggia 2000
© Saurabh Shukla 2000
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Text Editor: Kishore Singh
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Dedication
On December 24, 1999, the passengers and crew of
Indian Airlines Flight le 814 were taken hostage by a
group ofjive hijackers.As the nation watched the horror
unfold, three passengers were stabbed. Two of them
survived their injuries, but Rupin Katyal succumbed to
this brutal act of terrorism.
This book is dedicated to the memory of his tragic death
that robbed a father of an only son, and a bride of her
twenty-day-old husband.
Acknowledgements
I would like to sincerely acknowledge the constant help
and encouragement extended by my wife, Kusum and
daughters Anupama and Aparna; my mother Shanti
Jaggia for her blessings,and my nephew Manoj for his
help. Special thanks are due to Madhu Dayal, S.S.
Panesar, Y.K. Singh, O.P. Mahendroo, S.N Nigam, D.
Sharan,R.N Tandon, Rajinder Kumar, Anil Sharma, M.P.
Aggarwal and my dear friends and colleagues at Indian
Airlines. My gratitude to Kishore Singh for his expert
editing and my appreciation to Mr Pramod Kapoor and
his entire team at Roli Books.
—Anil Jaggia
I would like to thank Ma and Papa for showing me the
way, Chhaya and Devendra Narain for their constant
encouragement, Prriti for bringing out the best in me, and
Shweta and Anup for their support.
Thanks are also due to all those senior colleagues at
The Indian Express and friends who gave their valuable
insights, to Dr Amitabh Mattoo for his useiu! comments
on the draft, to the entire team at Roli Books that burned
the midnight oil with us) and especially to Pramod
Kapoorfor ensuring that the book came out in record time.
A special thanks to Kishore Singh for giving· the book
itsfinal shape.
—Saurabh Shukla