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===Pan Am Flight 73===
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On 5 September 1986, four ANO gunmen hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 at [[Jinnah International Airport|Karachi Airport]] on its way from Mumbai to New York, holding 389 passengers and crew for 16 hours in the plane on the tarmac before detonating grenades inside the cabin. [[Neerja Bhanot]], the flight's senior purser, was able to open an emergency door, and most passengers escaped. Twenty died, including Bhanot, and 120 were wounded.<ref>{{harvnb|Melman|1987|p=190}}; {{harvnb|Seale|1992|p=252-254}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Rajghatta, Chidanand |date=17 January 2010 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/24-yrs-after-Pan-Am-hijack-Neerja-Bhanot-killer-falls-to-drone/articleshow/5454295.cms |title=24 yrs after Pan Am hijack, Neerja Bhanot killer falls to drone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505223925/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/24-yrs-after-Pan-Am-hijack-Neerja-Bhanot-killer-falls-to-drone/articleshow/5454295.cms |archive-date=5 May 2014 |work=The Times of India |url-status=live |access-date=7 July 2024}}</ref> The London ''Times'' reported in March 2004 that Libya had been behind the hijacking.<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Jon Swain|Swain, Jon]] |date=28 March 2004 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1052614.ece |title=Revealed: Gaddafi's air massacre plot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523234457/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1052614.ece |archive-date=23 May 2011 |work=The Times}}</ref>