* Senior Purser Neerja Bhanot saved the lives of passengers and crew when Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked.

During the collection of the passports, one clever and brave stewardess, Neerja Bhanot, the senior flight purser, had thought that the American passports would be the ones they would single out and she decided to hide some under a seat with the rest dumped down a trash chute.

Passengers in the door 3 area immediately opened door 3 and extended the chute and started exiting the plane. Neerja Bhanot, flung a chute and assisted a number of passengers escape from the flight, while she laid down her life shielding three children from the bullets fired by the terrorists.

* Neerja Bhanot, 22

Neerja Bhanot '( September 7, 1963 – September 5, 1986 ), was a flight attendant for Pan Am airlines, based in Bombay, India, who died while saving passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on September 5, 1986, she went on to become the youngest recipient of India ’ s highest civilian award for bravery, the Ashoka Chakra.

Neerja Bhanot, born in Chandigarh, India, was the daughter of Rama Bhanot and Harish Bhanot, a Mumbai based journalist.

Neerja Bhanot was the senior flight purser on the ill-fated Pan Am Flight 73, hijacked by four heavily armed terrorists after it landed at Karachi at 5 am from Mumbai.

With the money from the insurance settlement and an equal contribution from Pan Am, Neerja's parents set up the ' Neerja Bhanot Pan Am Trust '.

Neerja's brother Aneesh Bhanot went to Washington DC, in 2005 to receive the ' Justice for Crimes Award ' awarded posthumously to Neerja as part of the ' Annual Crime Rights Week ', at a ceremony held at the United States Attorney's office for the District of Columbia.

A square called Neerja Bhanot Chowk is named after her in Mumbai's Ghatkopar ( East ) suburb by the Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

The civil aviation ministry of India conferred an honor on Neerja Bhanot posthumously on February 18, 2010 in New Delhi on the occasion of the launch of the celebrations of the centenary of Indian Aviation.

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1987 – Neerja Bhanot – Neerja Bhanot was the senior flight purser on the ill-fated Pan Am Flight 73, hijacked as it headed out of Mumbai and landed at Karachi en route to Frankfurt and onward to New York City by four armed terrorists.

Neerja alerted the cockpit crew about the hijack and, as the plane was on the tarmac, the three-member cockpit crew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer were able to flee from the aircraft.

Neerja was recognised internationally as " the heroine of the hijack " and is the youngest recipient of the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest civilian award for bravery.

The terrorists then instructed Neerja to get the passports collected of all the passengers, so that they could identify the Americans.

Neerja opened the emergency door and helped a number of passengers escape.

Neerja, being the most senior cabin crew member on board, took charge.

Neerja, and the other attendants under her charge, hid the passports of the 40 Americans on board.

* Neerja Bhanot-India's youngest and only female Ashoka Chakra Award winner

Neerja had an arranged marriage in March, 1985 and joined her husband in the Gulf.

Neerja has two brothers, Akhil and Aneesh.

Commenting on the legalisation of homosexuality in India ; Anil Bhanot, general secretary of The United Kingdom Hindu Council said: The point here is that the homosexual nature is part of the natural law of God ; it should be accepted for what it is, no more and no less.

Her father, Harish Bhanot, a veteran journalist with The Hindustan Times served for over 30 years, first at Chandigarh and later in Mumbai, died on Jan 01, 2008 in Chandigarh at the age of 86.

* Rajasthan Village: Majra, Mohmadpur Majra, Bhanot, Sarai Kalan.

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