It came as a surprise to us at Bombay airport when we were told the flight would first land at the Karachi International Airport and then proceed to Frankfurt. We were to take a Pan Am Mumbai-Frankfurt-New York flight. вЂњI was on my way to the US to attend an international conference. Later, when the hijackers opened fire on passengers and planted explosives, Neerja opened an emergency exit to let the passengers through, for which, she was fatally shot by the terrorists.Дr Kishore Murthy, a survivor from the ill-fated Pan Am flight recalls the incidents on that day inside the flight: Neerja Bhanot, head attendant on the flight, first hid the passports of American passengers so that they could not be distinguished from non-Americans. Surviving hostage Michael Thexton had published a book in which he claimed he had heard the hijackers intended to crash the plane into a target in Israel (in the manner of 9/11).

Pan Am Flight 73, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747-121, with 360 passengers on board, was hijacked on September 5, 1986, while on the ground in Karachi (it had just arrived from Mumbai and was on its way to Frankfurt and ultimately to New York City), by four armed Palestinian men of the Abu Nidal Organization. I am glad today I can show my gratitude to them.вЂќД¬rew member hits out at makers of the movie вЂNeerjaвЂ™, says film is вЂfictionвЂ™ and not вЂrealityвЂ™ It was Astrid, Sherene, Sunshine and off course Massey who were the real heroes of the day.

Not fair to the FAвЂ™s who have in reality faced their ordeal!вЂќ Neerja was a wonderful person and I think even her soul today would cringe at taking this undeserved adulation. But also a difficult moment for all those flight attendants to accept the movie for what it is unfairly propagating. Nupoor posted on FB, вЂњYes, truly a very difficult moment.

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