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=== Pan Am Flight 73 ===
Main article: Pan Am Flight 73

On 5 September 1986, four ANO gunmen hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 at 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; 20 died, including Bhanot, and 120 were wounded.<sup>[80][81]</sup> The London ''Times'' reported in March 2004 that Libya had been behind the hijacking.<sup>[82]</sup>