On 30 January 1971 , an Indian Airlines passenger airliner named Name_conferral Ganga , flying Motion from Srinagar to Jammu , was hijacked Terrorism by two Kashmiri separatists belonging to the National Liberation Front ( NLF , the antecedent of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front ) .

Ganga was one of the oldest aircraft in the Indian Airlines fleet and was already withdrawn from service Rite but was re-inducted days before the hijacking Terrorism .

Furthermore , this river is located at the northern part of the Bihar plains in eastern India and is an important tributary of the Ganga river system .