The girl and the plane.Her name was Nira Bhanot

Indian girl Nira Bhanot worked as a flight attendant in the airline Pan American. She died in 23 years, saving the lives of 360 passengers on Board PAN AM 73.

A group of radical Islamists seized the plane in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Nira was able to instantly navigate, immediately informed the pilots (so they managed to escape through the escape hatch) and I made every effort to avoid panic among the passengers and remaining crew members.





When the terrorists have demanded they hand over all passports to execute all caught on Board the Americans, Nira discreetly hid the documents of all passengers with American citizenship under the seats and in the chute. As a result, the terrorists are never executed because they could not determine the nationality of the passengers "by eye".

When the Pakistani police began to storm the plane, the terrorists started to shoot and blow up grenades, Nira almost without any help evacuate passengers. Before to evacuate the last, she once again looked around and found three children, who were still hiding behind the seats. While the children escape to freedom, the terrorists noticed the little fugitives, and opened fire on them. Niria closed children of his body and was mortally wounded. However, she managed to evacuate the children and then died.

Nira Bhanot became the youngest person awarded the "Ashoka Chakra", the highest Indian award for bravery in peacetime. published

 

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