![]() ![]() The plane was halted for around 17 hours on runway. Later, the terrorist could only able to kill 2 Americans among 41. So she hid the passports and discarded many of them in rubbish chute. Apparently, she understood that the utmost aim of the terrorists was to kill the Americans. During this hijacking, one of the terrorist asked Neerja to collect all he passports from the passengers onboard. She was the senior most among the crew members left onboard. This was the time when Neerja was left with the responsibility of all passengers on her shoulders. ![]() The fore most thing that Neerja did when the terrorist boarded the plane was that she informed the cockpit crew who then managed to escaped through an overhead hatch in the cockpit. She was killed by the terrorists when she tried to save three children from the fire shots of terrorists. Neerja Bhanot, was the senior flight attendant on board, who was about to turn 23 after 25 hours of her death. They initiated their supremacy which continuous gun shots in air to frighten the passengers. Just after some time the plane landed Karachi, four terrorists who were heavily armed had gained the control of the plane. There were passengers of different nationalities on the flight. Everything was going good till the time the flight had reached Karachi. The flight was supposed to reach Frankfurt and then on to depart for New York. Story of Neerja Bhanot On September 5, 1986, Pan Am Flight 73 had landed in Karachi at early morning.
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