Plane hijacker once surrendered after talking to AB Vajpayee

Satish Chandra Pandey, a BJP supporter from Sultanpur who had hijacked an Indian Airlines flight on January 22, 1993, surrendered at the insistence of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Pandey had hijacked Lucknow-Delhi flight IC-810 to protest against then PM PV Narasimha Rao's assurance that Babri Masjid would be rebuilt. Vajpayee, who was then an MP from Lucknow, met the hijacker.