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For Captain Devi Sharan, IC 814 from Kathmandu to Delhi was another routine flight, bringing home honeymooners, holiday makers and businessmen, special only in that it was the last Christmas Eve of the millennium, and he was to go on vacation with his family. But when five masked men brandishing guns and hand grenades hijacked the aircraft, his life and the lives of the 188 passengers and crew changed forever.

This book brings to life the drama, tension and horror of those eight days inside the aircraft, as it flew to Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai and finally Kandahar. There, in a cold and alien place, ordinary men and women were pushed beyond the limits of normal human endurance and forced to confront situations they could not have imagined before: murder, bloodshed, starvation and, above all, the crippling uncertainty of living under the constant threat of death.

An intimate and powerful account of survival, showcasing the strength to remain in command under extreme duress and against overwhelming odds, this book is a tale of courage and fortitude, of hope and its ebbing.

 
 

About the Author

Captain Devi Sharan was born in 1962 in Sawant, near Karnal in Haryana. He graduated from Dyal Singh College, Karnal and joined Indian Airlines, in 1986. He began flying Airbuses from the late-90s. He was awarded the Conway Safe Award 1999, in Atlanta, for his role in resolving the IC 814 hijacking. He lives in New Delhi with his wife.



Srinjoy Chowdhury is the National Affairs Editor with Times Now, one of India's leading television news channels. He grew up in Kolkata, where he studied at La Martiniere and Presidency College, Calcutta. He joined Sunday magazine in 1984 and then worked for the Telegraph and the Statesman. After his first book, Despatches from Kargil, he wrote Flight into Fear on the hijacking of IC 814 with Devi Sharan, the plane's captain, and three quiz books. 'Tahrir' about his experiences in Cairo during the Arab Spring was part of The Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East (2013), a collection of essays. His report 'The View from an Indian Television Newsroom: What Makes Us Different,' was included in Media at Work in China and India (2015). He lives in New Delhi.

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  • ISBN: 9789357314756
  • Author: Captain Devi Sharan
  • Publisher: Hachette India
  • Pages: 216
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For Captain Devi Sharan, IC 814 from Kathmandu to Delhi was another routine flight, bringing home honeymooners, holiday makers and businessmen, special only in that it was the last Christmas Eve of the millennium, and he was to go on vacation with his family. But when five masked men brandishing guns and hand grenades hijacked the aircraft, his life and the lives of the 188 passengers and crew changed forever.

This book brings to life the drama, tension and horror of those eight days inside the aircraft, as it flew to Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai and finally Kandahar. There, in a cold and alien place, ordinary men and women were pushed beyond the limits of normal human endurance and forced to confront situations they could not have imagined before: murder, bloodshed, starvation and, above all, the crippling uncertainty of living under the constant threat of death.

An intimate and powerful account of survival, showcasing the strength to remain in command under extreme duress and against overwhelming odds, this book is a tale of courage and fortitude, of hope and its ebbing.

 
 

About the Author

Captain Devi Sharan was born in 1962 in Sawant, near Karnal in Haryana. He graduated from Dyal Singh College, Karnal and joined Indian Airlines, in 1986. He began flying Airbuses from the late-90s. He was awarded the Conway Safe Award 1999, in Atlanta, for his role in resolving the IC 814 hijacking. He lives in New Delhi with his wife.



Srinjoy Chowdhury is the National Affairs Editor with Times Now, one of India's leading television news channels. He grew up in Kolkata, where he studied at La Martiniere and Presidency College, Calcutta. He joined Sunday magazine in 1984 and then worked for the Telegraph and the Statesman. After his first book, Despatches from Kargil, he wrote Flight into Fear on the hijacking of IC 814 with Devi Sharan, the plane's captain, and three quiz books. 'Tahrir' about his experiences in Cairo during the Arab Spring was part of The Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East (2013), a collection of essays. His report 'The View from an Indian Television Newsroom: What Makes Us Different,' was included in Media at Work in China and India (2015). He lives in New Delhi.

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