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Indian Airlines Flight 814
Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814, was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The passenger flight, en route from Kathmandu to Delhi, was taken over shortly after it entered Indian airspace at about 16:53 IST. The aircraft had 190 occupants: 179 passengers and 11 crew members including Captain Devi Sharan, First Officer Rajinder Kumar, and Flight Engineer Anil Kumar Jaggia.
Port Arthur massacre
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania. The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, murdered 35 people and wounded 23 others, in the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. The attack led to fundamental changes in Australia's gun laws.
Luxor massacre
Terrorist attack in Luxor, Egypt on 17 November 1997
Federal Express Flight 705
attempted suicide hijacking
Air France Flight 8969
hijacking of an Air France commercial airliner by a terrorist group in 1994
British Airways Flight 149
hostage situation
Lufthansa Flight 592
Aircraft hijacking incident
Singapore Airlines Flight 117
aircraft hijacking
2000 Airstan incident
1990s hostage-taking incident
Black Sea hostage crisis
1996 ship hijacking
Kish Air Flight 707
1995 aircraft hijacking
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 544
aircraft hijacking