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Hijack Scare In Delhi After Pilot Presses Wrong Button On Kandahar Flight
A hijack alert on a Kandahar-bound flight triggered alarm at the Delhi airport on Saturday after the pilot "mistakenly" pressed the 'hijack button' when it was taxiing for take-off, officials said.
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Pilot Of Indian Airlines Flight Hijacked To Pakistan In 1971 Dies
Captain M K Kachru, the pilot of the Indian Airlines plane hijacked to Pakistan in January 1971, died in Faridabad, near Delhi, today after prolonged illness, his family said.
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Abdur Rehman Admits Link With Kandahar Plane Hijack Terrorists
Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman has admitted his links with the terrorists involved in the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata, a senior police official said today.
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Power Outage on MH370 Could Be Work of Hijackers
Hijackers could have tampered with cockpit equipment of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in an effort to avoid radar detection, investigators said on Monday.
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Attempt to hijack plane in China
Chinese airline passengers helped foil an attempt to hijack a plane in the western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state media said, the latest incident of instability in a part of China where the government says it is facing violent separatists.
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Kashmiri Sikhs give demands charter to Chidambaram
A Kashmir Sikh group met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand clemency for five Sikhs who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1984 and action against those responsible for the killing of seven people in the 2000 Pathribal shootout.
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Chile police: Abdul Rauf in custody is not Kandahar mastermind
Top officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) met the Chilean authorities in Santiago to check whether the person in their custody is Abdul Rauf, the man suspected to be a key conspirator in the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane (IC-814) in 1999.Though the Chilean police said the man in custody is not the same man wanted by the Indian ...
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Canada bars entry to Indian Airlines hijacker
Canada has refused to re-admit the mastermind of the 1984 Indian Airline hijacking who was deported to India last year.Parminder Singh Saini, 47, who was the leader of five Sikh militants who hijacked the Srinagar-Delhi flight to Lahore July 6, 1984, had filed a plea in a federal court Feb 3 to seek re-entry into Canada.However, in its ruling Feb 9...
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US plane diverted to Florida in terror scare
A Continental Airlines jetliner flying from Newark to Bogota, was diverted to Jacksonville, Florida, over suspicion that a passenger was on the government's watch list of suspected terrorists banned from commercial flights. It turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
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The hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 on its way back to Delhi from Kathmandu was hijacked by 5 Pakistani hijackers on December 24, 1999.
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Hijack Scare In Delhi After Pilot Presses Wrong Button On Kandahar Flight
A hijack alert on a Kandahar-bound flight triggered alarm at the Delhi airport on Saturday after the pilot "mistakenly" pressed the 'hijack button' when it was taxiing for take-off, officials said.
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Pilot Of Indian Airlines Flight Hijacked To Pakistan In 1971 Dies
Captain M K Kachru, the pilot of the Indian Airlines plane hijacked to Pakistan in January 1971, died in Faridabad, near Delhi, today after prolonged illness, his family said.
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Abdur Rehman Admits Link With Kandahar Plane Hijack Terrorists
Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman has admitted his links with the terrorists involved in the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata, a senior police official said today.
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Power Outage on MH370 Could Be Work of Hijackers
Hijackers could have tampered with cockpit equipment of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in an effort to avoid radar detection, investigators said on Monday.
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Attempt to hijack plane in China
Chinese airline passengers helped foil an attempt to hijack a plane in the western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state media said, the latest incident of instability in a part of China where the government says it is facing violent separatists.
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Kashmiri Sikhs give demands charter to Chidambaram
A Kashmir Sikh group met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand clemency for five Sikhs who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1984 and action against those responsible for the killing of seven people in the 2000 Pathribal shootout.
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Chile police: Abdul Rauf in custody is not Kandahar mastermind
Top officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) met the Chilean authorities in Santiago to check whether the person in their custody is Abdul Rauf, the man suspected to be a key conspirator in the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane (IC-814) in 1999.Though the Chilean police said the man in custody is not the same man wanted by the Indian ...
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Canada bars entry to Indian Airlines hijacker
Canada has refused to re-admit the mastermind of the 1984 Indian Airline hijacking who was deported to India last year.Parminder Singh Saini, 47, who was the leader of five Sikh militants who hijacked the Srinagar-Delhi flight to Lahore July 6, 1984, had filed a plea in a federal court Feb 3 to seek re-entry into Canada.However, in its ruling Feb 9...
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US plane diverted to Florida in terror scare
A Continental Airlines jetliner flying from Newark to Bogota, was diverted to Jacksonville, Florida, over suspicion that a passenger was on the government's watch list of suspected terrorists banned from commercial flights. It turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
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The hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 on its way back to Delhi from Kathmandu was hijacked by 5 Pakistani hijackers on December 24, 1999.
