Flight Into Fear
Subtitle: The Captain's Story
By: Devi Sharan with Srinjoy Chowdhury.
Contributors: Chowdhury, Srinjoy, 1962-
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Indian Air Flight IC814 Hijacking Incident, 1999.; Hijacking of aircraft -- India.; Crimes aboard aircraft -- India.
Description: 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. 

The book brings to life the drama, tension and horror of those eight days inside the aircraft, as it flew to Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai and finally Kandahar. There, in a cold and. alien place, ordinary men and women were pushed beyond the limits of normal human endurance and forced to confront situations they could not have even imagined before: murder, bloodshed, starvation, overflowing toilets, and above all, the crippling uncertainty of living under the constant threat of death.

*Flight into Fear* is a tale of courage and fortitude, of hope and its ebbing. It is the story of what it is like to be in command under extreme duress and against overwhelming odds.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Map
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Prologue
title: Hyderabad, 23-24 December 1999
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter One
title: Kathmandu, 24 December 1999
pagenum: 5; label: Chapter Two
title: Amritsar, 24 December 1999
pagenum: 20; label: Chapter Three
title: Lahore, 24 December 1999
pagenum: 41; label: Chapter Four
title: Dubai, 25 December 1999
pagenum: 49; label: Chapter Five
title: Kandahar, 25 December 1999
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter Six
title: Kandahar, 26 December 1999
pagenum: 77; label: Chapter Seven
title: Kandahar, 27 December 1999
pagenum: 91; label: Chapter Eight
title: Kandahar, 28 December 1999
pagenum: 105; label: Chapter Nine
title: Kandahar, 29 December 1999
pagenum: 114; label: Chapter Ten
title: Kandahar, 30 December 1999
pagenum: 131; label: Chapter Eleven
title: Kandahar, 31 December 1999
pagenum: 149; label: Chapter Twelve
pagenum: 167; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 182; title: Index
pagenum: 194