New Delhi (PTI): Senior BJP leader L K Advani appears to have got it wrong when he contends that he spoke to former US Ambassador Robert Blackwill seeking Washington's help to end the 1999 Kandahar hijack crisis.

Blackwill, while responding to Advani's contention made in his memoirs 'My Country, My Life', said he was in the US during the Kandahar crisis and had come to India as Ambassador two years after the hijack crisis.

Blackwill told Karan Thapar's 'India Tonight' programme on CNBC that the former Deputy Prime Minister might have spoken to his predecessor Richard Celeste during the Kandahar crisis.