At 6:30 in the evening, The Indian High Commission in Pakistan, requests Pakistani authorities, To allow the plane to land in Lahore. But they weren’t granted permission. Meanwhile, Capt Devi Sharan tried to talk to the hijackers.
To tell them that the plane was running low on fuel, And that they couldn’t keep waiting for permission, They had to land somewhere and refuel. He proved successful in convincing the hijackers. And the hijackers agree to have the plane land in Amritsar, For refueling.
At 6:44 PM, the flight starts descending towards Amritsar. Friends, the hijackers did not want this to happen. They had hijacked an Indian plane, And to have it land in India, Would give a huge upper hand to the Indian government and authorities.
In this crisis, this situation was very advantageous for India. The Indian forces could now get better control over the situation Because the plane was about to land in India. But what happened next, turned out to be a historic blunder.
