Apr 30, 2015 11:17 PM
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As the world prepared to celebrate the last Christmas of the Century followed by welcoming the New Year day of the millennium, a chilling mid-air hijacking took place in Indian Airlines Flight IC-814 from Kathmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi, India, on the afternoon of 24th December, 1999. Thus begins the ordeal for on board 178 passengers and 8 crewmembers, which lasts for 173 agonizing hours.
This novel is preety intresting and is based on true event happened in 1999. Neelesh Mishra have very nicely put down in words his novel by rising excitement in the reader.Misra, though not a passenger of the ill-fated flight, has tried to portray a real life story of the entire hijacking episode, based on interview with passengers, crews, govt. officials and other journalists. The book traces how meticulously the whole operation was planned by the Pakistan based Muslim terrorists, how they maintained contact with their accomplices based in various cities of India, how they got forged Indian passports.
The author has beautifully portrayed the confusion at Amritsar airport, confusion among the higher-ups in govt and the so-called Crisis Management Group at New Delhi and loss of valuable time for proper reaction to the incident.
A really intresting book to read.
