Needless controversy over OTT series, says Kandahar plane hijack survivor

Amid a row over the depiction of code names of hijackers of the 1999 Indian Airlines plane in the OTT series “IC814: The Kandahar Hijack”, a survivor of the harrowing incident on Wednesday said there is a “needless” controversy over the show.

Commenting on Anubhav Sinha’s Netflix series, Pooja Kataria, who was then returning from her honeymoon in Kathmandu, said, “I have seen it. The controversy which is going on is needless. There is nothing like this, true event has been depicted and they (hijackers) had code names and they used to call each other using those names.”