When Jaishankar found his father was on the hijacked flight

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday spoke about the 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack' Netflix web series and revealed that his father was a passenger on a flight hijacked in 1984, and Jaishankar himself was part of the team that handled the crisis.

The remarks by Jaishankar came while he was interacting with the Indian community in Geneva.

He said, "I haven't seen the film, so I don't want to comment. But I tell you something interesting which you may remember. In 1984, there was a hijack... I was a very young officer. I was part of the team that was dealing with it. After 3-4 hours of the hijacking, I rang up my mother to tell her that I can't come, there's a hijacking. I discovered that my father was on that flight. The flight ended up in Dubai. Fortunately, nobody got killed but it could have ended up wrongly."

The EAM called the incident "interesting," and said that on the one hand, he was part of the official team working to resolve the crisis, while on the other hand, he was also part of the affected families who were pressing the government for action.