Neerja Bhanot, A Lady Worth Remembering.
Neerja Bhanot, 7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986,was a purser for Pan Am, based in Mumbai, India, who was shot and killed while saving passengers from terrorists on board a hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on 5 September 1986. Posthumously, she became the youngest recipient of India's highest peacetime military award for bravery, the Ashok Chakra. Neerja Bhanot was born in Chandigarh, India, the daughter of Rama Bhanot and Harish Bhanot, a Mumbai-based journalist. She received her early schooling at Sacred Heart Sen. Sec. School, Chandigarh till class 5. After moving to Mumbai, she completed her schooling in Bombay Scottish School and continued to St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. It was in Mumbai, where she was first spotted for a modelling assignment which helped her modelling career to take off. Bhanot applied for a flight attendant job with Pan Am 73, when it decided to have an all Indian crew for its Asian clients, and upon selection, went to Miami for training as a flight attend...