Neerja Bhanot
Indian flight attendant, a recipient of Ashoka Chakra and Nishan-e-Pakistan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986)[1][2] was an Indian purser who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 which had been hijacked by terrorists from a terrorist organization during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 September 1986, just two days before her 23rd birthday. Posthumously, she became the first female recipient and, until 2023, youngest recipient of India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashoka Chakra, as well as several other accolades from the governments of Pakistan and the United States. She was shot while trying to save three children from the plane.[2][3] Her life and heroism inspired the 2016 biopic Neerja directed by Ram Madhvani and starring Indian actress Sonam Kapoor.
Neerja Bhanot | |
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 Neerja on a 2004 postage stamp of India | |
| Born | (1963-09-07)7 September 1963 Chandigarh, India |
| Died | 5 September 1986(1986-09-05) (aged 22) Karachi Airport, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wound |
| Employer | Pan Am |
| Known for | Pan Am Flight 73 |