Neerja bhanot biography of george washington

Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73 (1963–1986)

This article is about the Indian purser. For the 2016 Hindi-language biographical film, see Neerja.

In this Indian name, the name Bhanot is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Neerja.

Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986)^[1][2] was an Indian flight purser.

On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan.

Neerja bhanot biography of george washington

Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Shortly afterward, Pakistan's Special Service Group stormed the aircraft and captured all of the hijackers.

Posthumously, Bhanot became the first female recipi