Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant from Mumbai who saved passengers during the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986. She alerted the cockpit crew, took charge as the senior staff member, and opened an emergency door to allow all passengers to escape a hail of bullets, despite having the opportunity to save herself. For her bravery in sacrificing her life to save over 360 hostages, she received India's highest peacetime military award.
Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant from Mumbai who saved passengers during the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986. She alerted the cockpit crew, took charge as the senior staff member, and opened an emergency door to allow all passengers to escape a hail of bullets, despite having the opportunity to save herself. For her bravery in sacrificing her life to save over 360 hostages, she received India's highest peacetime military award.
Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant from Mumbai who saved passengers during the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986. She alerted the cockpit crew, took charge as the senior staff member, and opened an emergency door to allow all passengers to escape a hail of bullets, despite having the opportunity to save herself. For her bravery in sacrificing her life to save over 360 hostages, she received India's highest peacetime military award.
Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant from Mumbai who saved passengers during the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986. She alerted the cockpit crew, took charge as the senior staff member, and opened an emergency door to allow all passengers to escape a hail of bullets, despite having the opportunity to save herself. For her bravery in sacrificing her life to save over 360 hostages, she received India's highest peacetime military award.
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Shabana Azmi Sonam kapoor
played the role of Yogendra tiku
as a Mother of Neerja as a Father of Neerja Neerja
Played as the on-screen love interest
of Neerja Neerja Bhanot was born on September 7 1963 in Chandigarh, India; the daughter of Rama Bhanot and Harish Bhanot, a Mumbai-based journalist. She was 3rd child daughter after 2 sons, Akhil and Aneesh Bhanot had an arranged marriage in March 1985 and joined her husband in the gulf. Plane hijacked On: 5th of September, 1986 On September 5, 1986 Neerja, her crew and the 400 American and Indian Passengers were boarding Pan Am flight 73 from Mumbai.
Neerja was the head purser(Flight attendant).
After flying to Karachi that’s when things got bad. Sadh Orhan played as Saad Mallik Abrar Zahoor as Zayd Safirini
Jim Sarbh as Khalil Ali Baldiwala as Mansoor
4 terrorists from the Abu-Nidal-Organization hijacked Pan AM flight 73.
Neerja Alerted the cockprit
crew who evacuated the plane. Being the senior most staff on the hijacked aircraft, she took charge.
Terrorists then instructed Bhanot to collect the passports of all the passengers so that they could identify Americans. After 17 hours, the hijackers opened fire and set off explosives.
Bhanot opened the emergency
door allowing all passengers to escape.
She could have jumped but
she decided not to and saved three children from a hail of bullets. Neerja was a purser for Pan AM, based in Mumbai, India, who was murdered while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan AM Flight 73 on 5th September 1986, she became the youngest recipient of India’s highest peacetime military award for bravery, the Ashok Chakra.
