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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
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 ...
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 friend has left a touching tribute for a “beautiful” woman who died unexpectedly onboard a Qantas flight.
Rexroat died in June 2017 at the age of 99. [9] Immediately before her death she was the last surviving WASP in South Dakota and one of 275 living WASPs out of the original 1,074. [ 10 ] Several months after her death, the airfield operations building at Ellsworth Air Force Base was named after her.
American Airlines Flight 11: World Trade Center North Tower, New York City 9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta: Toivo Antikainen: Finland 1941 Communist leader, military officer Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union: Was allegedly killed in a plane crash, but some claim he died in Moscow under suspicious circumstances. Steve Appleton: United States 2012