New Delhi: A 28-year-old hijacking case that involved a Pan Am airline may cast shadow over Barack Obama's January visit. A directive from the Ministry of Civil Aviation to the Ministry of External Affairs has suggested that it should raise with the United States the issue of not granting compensation to Indian-origin victims who were killed before the hijack ended.
Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked on September 5, 1986, while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian men of the Abu Nida the Abu Nidal organisation. The aircraft, with 360 passengers on board, had just arrived from Sahar International Airport in Mumbai, and was preparing to depart the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi for Frankfurt, before its ultimate destination of New York. 20 passengers were killed after commandos stormed the plane and the hijackers started shooting. Twelve of the killed were Indians.
While the US authorities compensated American nationals on the ill-fated flight, it refused to pay any compensation for passengers of other nationalities.
20/12/14 Dipanjan Roy Choudhury/Economic Times
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Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked on September 5, 1986, while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian men of the Abu Nida the Abu Nidal organisation. The aircraft, with 360 passengers on board, had just arrived from Sahar International Airport in Mumbai, and was preparing to depart the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi for Frankfurt, before its ultimate destination of New York. 20 passengers were killed after commandos stormed the plane and the hijackers started shooting. Twelve of the killed were Indians.
While the US authorities compensated American nationals on the ill-fated flight, it refused to pay any compensation for passengers of other nationalities.
20/12/14 Dipanjan Roy Choudhury/Economic Times
