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We are here to remember. We are here to recount. We are here to bear witness. We are here to
pay tribute. We are here to punish. We are here for justice.

The Pan Am Flight 73 originated in Mumbai and stopped at the Karachi airport for a scheduled
stop-over at 4:55 AM. It was carrying 394 passengers and 9 infants, an American flight crew and
13 Indian flight attendants. A total of 109 passengers disembarked at Karachi. The first bus-load
of fresh passengers from Karachi had barely reached the aircraft standing on the tarmac when the
hijacking began to unfold.

Two hijackers dressed in sky-blue uniforms of the Pakistan Airport Security Force drove up to
the aircraft in a van fitted with a siren and flashing lights. They rushed up the ramp, firing shots
into the air. Another two hijackers joined the first two men, one of them dressed in
Pakistani shalwarkameez and carrying a brief-case full of grenades. There was also gun-fire
outside the aircraft reported around this time, which killed two Kuwait Airlines staff members
working on an aircraft nearby. The hijackers fired shots at the feet of a flight attendant forcing
him to close the door. Another flight attendant, SherenePavan, was out of sight of the hijackers
and relayed the hijack code to the cockpit crew, who subsequently exited the aircraft via the
Inertial Reel Escape Device. After about 40 minutes from the landing of Flight 73, the airliner
came under the control of the hijackers. The exit of the pilots immobilised the aircraft.

The four hijackers were dressed as Karachi airport security guards and were armed with assault
rifles, pistols, grenades, and plastic explosive belts. The hijackers drove a van that had been
modified to look like an airport security vehicle through a security checkpoint up to one of the

boarding stairways to Pan Am Flight 73.

The four hijackers were later identified
as Zayd Hassan Abd al-LatifSafarini (Safarini, alias "Mustafa"), Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim
(alias "Fahad"), Muhammad Abdullah Khalil HussainarRahayyal ("Khalil"), and Muhammad
Ahmed Al-Munawar (alias "Mansoor"). Pakistani authorities also identified another
accomplice Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz al-Turki ("Hafiz") and

arrested him a week later.