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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.
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. <br><br> 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. '
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