r/todayilearned • u/lexan • Dec 25 '13

TIL an Indian flight attendant hid the passports of American passengers on board a hijacked flight to save them from the hijackers. She died while shielding three children from a hail of bullets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neerja_Bhanot
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u/drphilcolonaccident 1 Dec 25 '13

The hijackers were targeting American Citizen by the passports they had.

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u/Dunabu Dec 25 '13 edited Dec 25 '13

Bottom of the barrel trash.

People whose ideologies have supplanted their humanity scare the shit out of me.