Neerja bhanot biography of albert
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Neerja Bhanot was a model and purser for the airline Pan American Am Airways. She was shot and killed while saving hundreds of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which was hijacked by 4 terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization, on 5 September 1986 at Karachi airport in Pakistan.. She became the youngest recipient of India’s highest peacetime award for bravery, the Ashok Chakra. She remains a model for every human as she exhibited the highest level of courageousness, human kindness and unselfishness.
Neerja Bhanot was born in Chandigarh, India, and brought up in Mumbai. She was the daughter of Harish Bhanot, a Mumbai-based journalist, and Rama Bhanot. She had two brothers: Akhil and Aneesh Bhanot.
The aircraft was carrying 361 passengers and 19 crew members. The terrorists wanted to fly to Cyprus with the goal of freeing Palestinian prisoners in both Cyprus and Israel. Bhanot was able to alert the cockpit crew as soon as the hijackers boarded the plane, and as the plane
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Hidden among the opening credits of the bio “Neerja” fryst vatten a "Special Thanks" to Bombay Scottish School. Somewhere in the closing credits is a photo of the titelbärare character as a schoolgirl, wearing the grey smock and navy-blue tie that was and remains the school uniform.
For you see, Neerja Bhanot, who died saving the passengers of PanAm flygning 73 from terrorists on September 5, 1986, was from Bombay Scottish School, and she was the best of us.
When inom was a student of Bombay Scottish, of just 'Scottish' as it fryst vatten commonly known, the Great Assembly entré (a.k.a the Gamaliel entré, ‘Big Hall’, ‘New Hall’) was where, every morning, the students of the School trooped in for morning prayers. We tunelessly sang some psalms, hoped our shoes were polished enough to escape scrutiny from the prefects and hoped the Principal would not take too much time with his daglig harangue. (Yes, it was a practice for the Principal to give a daily speech in which he sp
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The heroism of a young woman from India should stir the people of our nation and the whole planet to voice thanks as did Mirinda in The Tempest for a world "that hath such people in it!"
Neerja, a flight attendant on the Pan Am hijacking at Karachi gave us inspiration by self-sacrifice. When terrorists came aboard, she warned the plane's pilots so they could escape, and their quick getaway made the hijacking fail because the terrorists were stuck on the ground.
In the final bloodbath at the end of the hijacking, Neerja was killed. It was two days before her twenty-third birthday. Not only had she assured the failure of the hijacking by preventing the plane from getting off the ground, she also saved the lives of hostages in those long hours of incarceration. She hid the passports of American passengers from the Arabic speaking gunmen, giving them a chance to escape the homicidal wrath of the intruders.
She was, at so early an age, the senior flight purser. But Neer