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電影時,聽聞一架印度航空(Indian Airlines)的飛機在從加德滿都飛往德里的途中被劫持了。機上約有176名乘客,這架飛機先是降落到印度的阿姆利則(Amritsar)機場,在那停留了約45分鐘;然后飛往巴基斯坦拉合爾加油;接著飛往迪拜,在那里釋放了26名人質;最后飛往塔利班控制下的阿富汗坎大哈機場。