Remembering Neerja Bhanot and Pan Am Flight 73 to New York
MUMBAI–Neerja Bhanot died on the night of Sept. 5, 1986, after terrorists killed her for helping passengers escape Pan Am Flight 73 hijacked at Karachi airport, Pakistan. She still lives on through the ultimate courage – saving lives at cost of her own.
On Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, India sees ‘Neerja’ again. 20th Century Fox and Star India are releasing their joint venture film Neerja, a Hindi biopic about this woman who died at 22 while helping 360 fellow beings live on.
Four heavily armed terrorists carrying assault rifles, grenades, plastic explosives and pistols passed Karachi airport security, and stormed Pan American Flight 73 from Bombay (now Mumbai) that had landed at Karachi early morning on Sept. 5, 1986.
Firing their weapons and manhandling a flight attendant, the hijackers took control of the Boeing 747-121 Jumbo Jet minutes before it took off to Frankfurt, en route to New York.
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