'IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack' is among the top search topics on Google as over 20k searches were made with a spike of 200 per cent on the topic in 16 hours. The search shot up after 'IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack' was released on Thursday on Netflix, creating excitement among the audience ever since its announcement. The six-episode series tells the harrowing story of terror, crisis, and heroism as it chronicles the fear faced by passengers and crew trapped at 30,000 feet. The series which is directed and created by Anubhav Sinha, is based on the true gripping story of India's longest hijacking that took place in 1999 and shook the entire nation. The week-long IC 814 hijacking in December 1999 brought the nation to a standstill. Terrorists hijacked the plane after it took off from Kathmandu in Nepal, after which it landed in Amritsar, and then in Lahore. The flight then touched down in Dubai, and finally in Kandahar, where the negotiations took place. In the end, the hostages were released in exchange for three high-profile terrorists after a stand-off in Afghanistan. The incident took place when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the PM, Jaswant Singh was the Foreign Minister, and India did not recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Vijay Varma, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Patralekha Paul, Aditi Gupta Chopra, Arvind Swami, Manoj Pahwa, Kumud Mishra, Anupam Tripathi, Dia Mirza, Armita Puri, Aditya Srivastava, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Yashpal Sharma are Sushant Singh are the member of cast in the series.
