NEERJA BHANOT
* so,yesterday I was reading a chapter in my english book . And in that chapter they told the story about "NEERJA BHANOT", I mean she was so brave, I don't know that you know about her or not , but she was real life wonder woman*
Neerja Bhanot,(7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986)was an Indian head purser who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 which had been hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 September 1986, just two days before her 23rd birthday. Posthumously, she became the youngest recipient of India's highest peacetime gallantry, the Ashok Chakra Award, as well as several other accolades from the governments of Pakistan and the United States. She was shot while helping passengers escape through the emergency exits.
Source : wikipedia
Here are some facts about her
● Neerja applied for the position of a flight attendant with Pan Am. She went to Miami for training and successfully returned as a purser (chief flight attendant).
● The hijackers of Pan Am Flight 73 asked Neerja to collect the passports of all the passengers so that they could identify the Americans. Smartly, she hid the passports of the Americans and saved their lives.
●Neerja was shot by bullets only some hours before her 23rd birthday which was 7th September.
●For her fearless act, Neerja was recognised internationally as ‘The Heroine of the Hijack’.
●In 1987, she became the youngest and first woman recipient of the Ashoka Chakra award, India's highest civilian decoration for bravery.
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