{"id":121633,"date":"2015-12-24T00:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T00:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/baawri-neerja-is-the-courageous-story-of-a-23\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T04:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T04:53:26","slug":"baawri-neerja-is-the-courageous-story-of-a-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/baawri-neerja-is-the-courageous-story-of-a-23\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-121633 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/baawri-neerja-is-the-courageous-story-of-a-23\/attachment\/121634\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nzsbj63U1l1rwbf4ro1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nzsbj63U1l1rwbf4ro6_r1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nzsbj63U1l1rwbf4ro6_r1_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nzsbj63U1l1rwbf4ro6_r1_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/baawri.tumblr.com\/post\/135745916219\" target=\"_blank\">baawri<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Neerja<br \/>\n is the courageous story of a 23 year old girl, Neerja Bhanot &#8211; an air hostess &#8211; who<br \/>\nlost her life while saving 359 passengers from terrorists on board the<br \/>\nhijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on 5th September 1986. Neerja alerted the cockpit crew about the hijack,<br \/>\n but as the plane was on the tarmac, the three-member American cockpit<br \/>\ncrew of pilot, co-pilot and the flight engineer fled from the aircraft. Neerja,<br \/>\n being the most senior cabin crew member on board, took charge. The<br \/>\nterrorists then instructed her to collect the passports of all the<br \/>\npassengers so that they could identify the Americans. But Neerja and the<br \/>\n other attendants under her charge hid the passports of the 41 Americans<br \/>\n on board. After 17 hours, the hijackers opened fire and set off<br \/>\nexplosives. Neerja opened the emergency door and helped a number of<br \/>\npassengers escape. She could have been the first to jump out when she<br \/>\nopened the door, but she decided not to, and was shot while shielding<br \/>\nthree children from a hail of bullets. She met a heroic death<br \/>\ntwo days before her 23rd birthday. Known to the world as the only woman<br \/>\nrecipient of Ashok Chakra, India\u2019s highest civilian award for bravery,<br \/>\nshe was fondly referred to as \u2018Lado\u2019 in her family.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>baawri: Neerja is the courageous story of a 23 year old girl, Neerja Bhanot &#8211; an air hostess &#8211; who lost her life while saving 359 passengers from terrorists on board the hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 on 5th September 1986. Neerja alerted the cockpit crew about the hijack, but as the plane was on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/24\/baawri-neerja-is-the-courageous-story-of-a-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14563,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121644,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121633\/revisions\/121644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}