On Christmas Eve 1999, I was watching a holiday movie in my New Delhi flat when I heard that an Indian Airlines plane — en route from Kathmandu to Delhi — had been hijacked. With about 176 passengers on board, the plane first landed at India’s Amritsar airport, where it stood for around 45 minutes. It then flew on to Lahore, in Pakistan, to re-fuel and to Dubai, where 26 hostages were freed. Finally, it flew to Afghanistan’s Kandahar Airport, under Taliban control.
1999年的平安夜,我在新德里的寓所看一部假日电影时,听闻一架印度航空(Indian Airlines)的飞机在从加德满都飞往德里的途中被劫持了。机上约有176名乘客,这架飞机先是降落到印度的阿姆利则(Amritsar)机场,在那停留了约45分钟;然后飞往巴基斯坦拉合尔加油;接着飞往迪拜,在那里释放了26名人质;最后飞往塔利班控制下的阿富汗坎大哈机场。