Anubhav Sinha is directing a sequence titled 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack'. The collection will be launched this month, which is based totally at the 1999 Kandahar aircraft hijack incident. For the unversed, the incident happened on December 24, 1999, whilst an Indian aircraft that left Nepal for Delhi became hijacked and the passengers had been held hostage for seven days. Instead of Delhi, the plane stopped immediately at Kandahar. This incident created a stir now not handiest in India but all over the international. Let's recognise about the longest hijacking of a country, that will soon be visible in a Netflix series. 
176 passengers have been traveling all through the Kandahar Hijack

The day was 24 December 1999. Indian Airlines flight IC 814 took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport for New Delhi. There have been 176 passengers and 15 group members on board the aircraft. Some hijackers had boarded the plane posing as passengers. As quickly because the aircraft entered Indian airspace, the hijackers confirmed their authentic colorings and took over the entire plane. They pointed weapons at the group participants and passengers, beat them up and diverted the plane from Delhi to Pakistan. The news of the plane hijacking had reached India and there was chaos within the authorities department. The families of the passengers on board and the complete united states have been protecting their breath. This incident changed into discussed everywhere in the world due to the fact apart from Indians, a few foreign passengers were also on board the flight. The hijacked aircraft had stopped for a while in Amritsar after which left for Lahore. The aircraft later landed in Lahore at eight:07 pm with out taking permission from the Pakistani government.

The subsequent morning, the plane left from Lahore for Dubai and from there landed directly in Kandahar, Afghanistan. When the hijacked aircraft reached Dubai, a passenger had a dispute with the hijackers and in the course of this, he were given injured. The hijackers dropped the blood-soaked passenger in Dubai itself, later that passenger died. Apart from this, 27 greater passengers have been launched in alternate for refuelling, most of whom had been women and kids. Then a diabetic man was launched. Apart from this, a woman affected by most cancers turned into allowed to go out of the plane for only 90 mins for remedy in Kandahar. A few hours after the plane was hijacked, the hijackers began making increasing demands. These protected the call for for the release of terrorists lodged in Indian jails. They additionally demanded a ransom of 200 million US dollars.

What did the Indian Government do?

The families of the passengers at the hijacked plane and the countrymen were now not best irritated however protests have been occurring in India. There changed into an NDA government in India at that point and Atal Bihari Vajpayee become the then Prime Minister. Currently, the National Security Advisor of the Government of India, Ajit Doval, changed into also involved in that operation. Kandahar become then dominated by means of the Taliban. They intervened inside the count and after that, the hijackers decreased their needs a piece. However, they remained adamant approximately the demand for the release of the terrorists. There become an excessive amount of pressure at the government that subsequently, in change for the safety of the passengers, a decision had to be taken to take 3 terrorists from Indian jails to Kandahar and release them. These three terrorists have been Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar.

Jaswant Singh became the foreign minister then and he himself reached Kandahar with the three terrorists. After the settlement between the government and the hijackers on December 31, all of the passengers have been launched and all of them lower back to Delhi. The then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself knowledgeable the countrymen about the discharge of the passengers from the hijacked plane and all people breathed a sigh of comfort. The plane IC-814 become hijacked by way of Pakistani hijackers. 

Talking about the series based totally on this incident, it is going to be released on Netflix on August 29. Stars like Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Verma, Pankaj Kapoor and Kumud Mishra might be visible inside the new web display.