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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.
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.
Sunshine (1973) – biographical drama television film about a young wife and mother who dies of cancer at age 20, based on the life of Jacquelyn M. "Lyn" Helton [143] The Tenderness of Wolves (German: Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe) (1973) – West German crime drama film based on the crimes of German serial killer and cannibal Fritz Haarmann [144]
This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.. True story films [1] gained popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the production of films based on actual events that first aired on CBS, ABC, and NBC.
Fatalities from wingsuit flying have occurred almost from the inception of the sport. Listed below are notable examples where wingsuit pilots were publicly named in the press, including when wingsuit practice was not the first cause of death. This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. Date Name Age Location Details 4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt 33 France The ...
Katharine McPhee Foster is mourning flight attendant Ian Epstein, who died in the recent American Airlines plane crash. “I remember this man on one of our many flights,” McPhee Foster, 40 ...
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 ...
Sirisha Bandla is the first and only Indian-born woman to make a suborbital flight as a space tourist, which she did on Virgin Galactic Unity 22 on July 11, 2021. [8] [9] [10] Williams with three spaceflights, have the record of most number of spaceflights by an astronaut of Indian origin.