In December 1999, Barkha Dutt was at the front reporting on the hijacking of IC814. She made a daring bid to get on the plane carrying three terrorists to Kandahar. She shares details with Rahul Shrivastava on how the hijacking caught the Vajpayee Government by surprise.
Listen the untold elements of the hijack and the unasked questions on the two hour Indian Airlines Flight IC814 that took off from Kathmandu for Delhi on the afternoon of December 24, 1999 but lasted over a week
She is emphatic that Pakistan was behind the hijack and the prime motive was to free terrorist Masood Azhar.
She recounts how the decision making mechanism faltered in those days. And how till date there are so many questions about the hijack that hunting for answers
16 сен 2024
