Neerja Bhanot was born on 7 September 1964 in Chandigarh and raised in Mumbai. She was the daughter of a Mumbai-based journalist, Harish Bhanot and his wife Rama Bhanot. She had two brothers, Akhil and Aneesh Bhanot. Neerja Bhanot was the head purser for the airline Pan Am Flight 73 which was hijacked by terrorists on 5 September 1986 during a stopover in Karachi, Pakistan. She died while saving passengers on the flight. Netizens took to social media platform, Twitter to pay tribute to Neerja Bhanot on her death anniversary.

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