Neerja Bhanot Net Worth

Background and career

Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers aboard Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian militants belonging to the Abu Nidal Organization during a stopover at Karachi Airport in Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers while helping the passengers escape from the aircraft.

Posthumously, Neerja became the first female recipient and the youngest recipient of the Ashoka Chakra — the highest peacetime gallantry award of India. She also received the Tamgha-e-Insaniyat, the fourth-highest civilian award of Pakistan, in addition to other accolades. The 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical film Neerja, starring Sonam Kapoor, was based on Bhanot's life.