# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neerja-bhanot
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:58.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neerja-bhanot"
name: "Neerja Bhanot"
slug: "neerja-bhanot"
description: "Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Shortly afterward, Pakistan's Special Service Group stormed the aircraft and captured all of the hijackers."
tagline: "Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73 (1963–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Neerja_Bhanot_2004_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Models"
  slug: "models"
profileType:
  name: "Model"
  slug: "model"
birthDate: "1963-09-07"
deathDate: "1986-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             21.05543574781175
  historical:           20.84460133333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump