Tarak Ghosh

Terror in the Sky Tarak Ghosh

The Inner Stories of two hijacked aircrafts and a missing aircraft. A collection of three non-fictions (Silent Cockpit, Flight 73 and Flight 648) under one coverSilent Cockpit: 'Silent Cockpit' is a non-fiction, based on the mysterious missing of Malaysian Flight MH 370 that had left behind a series of unanswered question. On March 8, 2014, the Malaysian Airlines MH370 had been 'vanished' from the sky and it has become one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.. After five years no one can sayexactly what happened to the ill fated aircraft. This book has tried to find the answers behind the mysterious missing of Flight MH 370. Flight 73: 'Flight 73' is a non-fiction, based on the true events that had happened on 6th September, 1986 while Pan-Am Clipper 73 was hijacked on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan. Nearly 361 passengers, ground crew and 13 flight attendants spent 16 hours as hostages of the terrorists. When the 747's alternate power system failed, the panicked terrorists opened fire, leaving 20 dead. After 31 years, the tragedy is still haunting. When the survivors recall the deadly memory, their hearts start racing and their spines become chilled. Flight 648: 'Flight 648' is a non-fiction based on the worst and the deadliest rescue operation of the 20th century that took place in Malta after the hijacked EgyptAir Flight 648 landed at Luqa airport. Thirty-five years ago, in November, 1985, an Egyptian military commando unit stormed the hijacked Egyptair Flight 648 with more than 96 persons on board, triggering a grenade and gun battle that set the aircraft on fire and killed 57 passengers and hijackers. The 24-hour hijack came to an end after a two-minute commando operation that brought hell to Luqa airport and put Malta on the map for the worst ever airplane massacre, leaving a series of unanswered questions.