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Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
Neerja Bhanot (7 September 1963 – 5 September 1986) [1] [2] was an Indian flight purser.On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers onboard 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.
Name Birth date Ancestry Birth Comment Missions (Launch date) 1 Kalpana Chawla March 17, 1962 India: First Indian American in space and First Indian origin woman in Space. Died on the Columbia. STS-87 (November 19, 1997) STS-107 (January 16, 2003) 2 Sunita Williams September 19, 1965 India United States
Friends and family of a woman who died while aboard an American Airlines flight to North Carolina in late February have identified her as an Indiana mother of two in multiple media reports ...
A high-end wedding photographer and his Indian American family were subjected to the wrath of a fellow traveler who hurled sickening insults at them after their United Airlines flight landed in ...
An Indian-American family was the target of a racist tirade from a fellow United Airlines passenger, which was captured on video.. Wedding photographer Pervez Taufiq had just flown from Cancun to ...
Timestamped at 8:43 a.m., just three minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the North Tower, and within the 7–9 a.m. timeframe during which Philip typically returned after her nights out, [7] it shows a woman entering the building, waiting near the elevator and leaving after a few minutes. Due to the poor contrast from ...
A female passenger died after she fell ill during an American Airlines flight from the Dominican Republic to Charlotte in the United States.. The 41-year-old woman became unwell onboard Flight ...