Netflix announced on Tuesday it will address outrage in India due to a historical drama about the terrorist hijacking of an airplane by adding a disclaimer to the beginning of the series. This may not mollify the critics, who are incensed that the Muslim terrorists responsible for the real-life incident were replaced with Hindus.
The Netflix series, titled IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack, is based on a true story about the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane 25 years ago.
Indian Airlines Flight 814 (known as IC-814) took off from Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu on December 24, 1999, bound for New Delhi, India, with 179 passengers and 11 crew aboard. The plane was hijacked in-flight by five members of a Pakistan-based terrorist group called
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