The given map shows locations of airports labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. What is the correct sequence of the airports in which the hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 landed after its initial take off from Kathmandu in December 1999 ?

After takeoff from Tribhuvan (Kathmandu), the hijacked Indian Airlines Flight IC‑814 was diverted and sequentially landed at Amritsar, then proceeded to Lahore (where landing/refusal events occurred), then flew to Dubai, and finally landed at Kandahar in Taliban‑ruled Afghanistan. Contemporary reports and subsequent summaries record this exact series of stops — Amritsar → Lahore → Dubai → Kandahar — as the hijack route in December 1999 [1]. Detailed accounts and reviews of the incident also list the same ordering of airports (Kathmandu origin, then Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai, Kandahar), which on the provided map corresponds to the label sequence 5, 4, 2, 3; hence option 3 is correct.

Sources

1. [1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/from-the-first-flash-to-landing-in-dubai-a-look-at-how-pti-covered-the-hijacking-of-ic814-in-1999/article68616840.ece