Most Notorious Hijackings of Indian Planes

25May,2024

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– Date: July 4, 1955 – Route: From Srinagar to Jammu – Details: India's first recorded aircraft hijacking. The plane was hijacked by a lone gunman, but the hijacking was thwarted.

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Indian Airlines Flight 427 (1955)

It was hijacked from Palam Airport Delhi by a group of six terrorists from Kashmir: Syed Abdul Hameed Dewani along, Syed M Rafique, M Ahsan Rathore, Abdul Rashid Malik, Ghulam Rasool and Khawaja Ghulam Nabi Itoo. in 1976

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Indian Airlines Flight Boeing 737 (1976)

It was hijacked mid-air minutes before its touchdown at the erstwhile Palam Airport, New Delhi. The two hijackers, Bholanath Pandey and Devendra Pandey, who were both rumoured to be members of Youth Congress hijacked the Indian Airlines plane on a domestic flight from Calcutta to Delhi.

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Indian Airlines Flight 410 (1978)

Flight from Delhi to Amritsar was hijacked by Sikh separatists and taken to Lahore. Pakistan took commando action using its elite SSG, which cleared the plane and freed all passengers.

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Indian Airlines IC-423 (1981)

Seven young hijackers demanded an Indian Airlines jetliner IC 421, on a domestic flight from Delhi to Srinagar with 100 passengers on board, be flown to the United States.

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Indian Airlines jetliner IC 421 (1984)

En route from Lucknow Airport to the Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport was hijacked and returned to Lucknow. The hijacker demanded the release of all karsevaks arrested after the Demolition of the Babri Masjid .

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Indian Airlines Flight 810 (1993)

It was hijacked en route from Delhi to Madras by a hijacker claiming to be strapped with explosives. The hijacker was later identified as Hari Singh, a truck driver from Haryana. He stated the reason behind this hijacking as a protest against the ongoing Hindu-Muslim riots at that time in which more than 2,000 people died.

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Indian Airlines Flight 439 (1993)