Neerja movie based on generator#

Whenever I think of that moment, I wonder: Is this humanity? What has a 23 year old done to deserve this? She was only trying to help people.вЂќ One cannot express those feelings in words. I was in the sixth row of the economy class and vividly remember how they shot her at point blank range in front of me. Dr Kishore reveals, вЂњThey were probably were angry with Neerja because of the way she was thinking on her feet, marshaling the limited resources available to her and saving so many passengers. Neerja kept marshaling people to the exits and this lead them to shoot her. It was very sad.вЂќД«ut that wasnвЂ™t the end. But he jumped from the wing to the ground and was, as a result, paralysed. I remember Neerja screaming to that passenger that he should use another escape route where there was an emergency chute. One person opened the door that led to the wing of the plane. Four terrorists took position in four corners of the cabin and started shooting and throwing grenades. They made 300 passengers move to the front of the economy cabin.

Dr Kishore recalls, вЂњThe terrorists began screaming in Arabic.

Neerja movie based on generator#

But on that particular day, the generator was not connected and after 18 hours, the lights started dimming in the aircraft and the terrorists thought they were going to attacked. The in-built battery is used when it lands in the sea, desert or mountain area. Generally, when a plane lands anywhere, a generator is attached to it as it electricity to the plane when it is parked. As he went on, вЂњ25-30 passengers were killed and a large number were injured.вЂќ Quite a few people died in front Dr Kishore and he was shocked by the atrocities. The terrorists shot him right there and threw his body out of the plane.вЂќ He didnвЂ™t realise they were looking for Americans. He thought the terrorists were gunning for Indians because a majority of the passengers were Indians. Despite this, one Indian American, I donвЂ™t recall his name, got up and said he was American. The hijackers were looking for American passengers, so she hid their passports. She was very brave and a true global citizen. She was also translating their demands into English for the control tower. As Dr Kishore adds to the leading website, вЂњNeerja was communicating with the terrorists in broken Arabic. There were approximately 400 passengers in the plane at the time and Neerja was communicating between the hijackers and the passengers and keeping everyone calm. When we landed in Karachi, the aircraft was hijacked by Libyan terrorists but Neerja, who was well trained in anti-hijack measures, alerted the pilots and they escaped through the cockpit window.вЂќ Prior to our departure, we had heard that all airports in Pakistan and India were on high alert as the Americans had bombed (Libyan ruler Colonel Muammar) GaddafiвЂ™s palace (in retaliation for the Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Pan Am flight, which crashed at Lockerbie, Soctland). It came as a surprise to us at Bombay airport when we were told the flight would first land at the Karachi International Airport and then proceed to Frankfurt. We were to take a Pan Am Mumbai-Frankfurt-New York flight. вЂњI was on my way to the US to attend an international conference. Later, when the hijackers opened fire on passengers and planted explosives, Neerja opened an emergency exit to let the passengers through, for which, she was fatally shot by the terrorists.Дr Kishore Murthy, a survivor from the ill-fated Pan Am flight recalls the incidents on that day inside the flight: 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.вЂќД¬rew member hits out at makers of the movie вЂNeerjaвЂ™, says film is вЂfictionвЂ™ and not вЂrealityвЂ™ It was Astrid, Sherene, Sunshine and off course Massey who were the real heroes of the day. Not fair to the FAвЂ™s who have in reality faced their ordeal!вЂќ

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, вЂњYes, truly a very difficult moment.