Indian Airlines A300 Hijacked to Dubai 25 August 1984

This video describes my involvement with the hijack of an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 on 25 August 1984 when I was an air traffic controller at Bahrain Air Traffic Control Centre.

[@hnik3630]

Refueling at gulf? Of Mexico?

[@spunkysarb7996]

Bell Bottom is an indian movie on this incident

[@petercromarty]

Thanks very much for letting me know. I’ll watch it.

[@suhasbhagwat3173]

😮 Very nice stressful video

[@petercromarty]

Thanks. Nothing for me compared to what the pilots went through. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nylonnalini]

What was the flight number? I can see IC405 in 1984 which was an A300 hijacked to Lahore where it ended after 17 hours. IC421 in 1985 was a 737-200 which was hijacked to LHE, KHI and then ended in DXB.

[@petercromarty]

I don't know what the flight number was originally because the hijackers changed to “Khalistan nn”, the nn being a number of significance to them but I can’t remember what it was. They never used an Indian Airlines flight number while I ‘controlled' them.

[@nylonnalini]

@@petercromarty ok. I am trying to find which A300 did this route to DXB in the 80s. I can only find a 737-200. A sud aviation caravelle flew commandos to a UAE airport to end that. However the A300 episode ended at LHE afaik.

[@nylonnalini]

@@petercromarty do you remember the registration of the aircraft involved?