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.”Ĭrew member hits out at makers of the movie ‘Neerja’, says film is ‘fiction’ and not ‘reality’

It was Astrid, Sherene, Sunshine and off course Massey who were the real heroes of the day. Not fair to the FA’s who have in reality faced their ordeal!” 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, “Yes, truly a very difficult moment.

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