Neerja Bhanot, Senior Flight attendant Pan Am 73, saved nearly 380 passengers and 13 crew from hostages over 17 hours. She destroyed passports, opened emergency doors, and helped the flight crew escape to keep the plane grounded. Lastly, she shielded 3 children from gunfire at the cost of her life.

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C_Chris77 on June 24th, 2019 at 08:06 UTC »

Neerja Bhanot was the Senior Flight attendant on the infamous Pan Am Flight 73 of 1986. The plane was scheduled to fly from Mumbai to the United States. Before takeoff four hijackers boarded the plane at Karachi airport in Pakistan and held 380 passengers and 13 crew members hostage at gunpoint in a 17 hour standoff.

First she helped the three-member cockpit crew escape in order to ground the plane so it could not be flown. When the hijackers demanded the passports of the Americans on board to take those passengers as collateral for a trade, Bhanot hid the passports under seat cushions, flushed them down the toilet and threw them down the trash shoot. Unable to decipher the American passengers from non-American passengers the situation escalated as the hijackers began shooting and detonating explosives. Bhanot deployed the emergency escape doors and began frantically guiding passengers out of the plane. One of the last to remain, a hijacker grabbed her by her ponytail and shot her point blank while she was shielding three American children from gun fire. She died at 22 the day before her birthday. She saved the majority of the passengers and the flight crew.

Source: Pan AM and @misfithistory

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I-am-a-story on June 24th, 2019 at 09:10 UTC »

There's a movie on her life

CssExpert on June 24th, 2019 at 09:26 UTC »

Do You Know?

hijackers opened fire and set off explosives. Bhanot opened one of the airplane doors, and started helping the other passengers escape. If she wanted, like the other cabin crew on board, she could have been the first one to jump out and escape from the aircraft when she opened the door, but she decided not to and instead started helping the other passengers escape.

Amazing and also She was given bravery awards by USA, Pakistan and India.