External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar disclosed a personal connection to a 1984 hijacking episode on Friday at a community event in Geneva. The revelation came while responding to inquiries about the newly available Netflix series concerning the 1999 hijacking of flight IC814.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar recalled the time when he was handling a hijacking crisis and discovered that his father was on that hijacked flight. Jaishankar opened up about the 1984 Indian Airlines plane hijacking as the Netflix series,

Reflecting on the 1984 incident, Jaishankar recounted how he was involved in handling the hijacking of a flight from Pathankot to Dubai by pro-Khalistan militants.

During an interaction in Geneva, India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar disclosed that his father, K. Subrahmanyam, was on a hijacked flight in 1984. This revelation came in response to a question about the 1999 IC-814 hijacking series.