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In this photo, an air hostess is wearing a biosecurity suit on a commercial flight at the Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport on September 2, 2020, in Palmira, Valle del Cauca Department ...
A flight attendant, also known as a steward (MASC) or stewardess (FEM), or air host (MASC) or hostess (FEM), is a member of the aircrew aboard commercial flights, many business jets and some government aircraft. [1] [2] Collectively called cabin crew, flight attendants are primarily responsible for passenger safety and comfort.
Naila Nazir, Pakistani air hostess who received 1985's Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) Heroism Award for bravely handling a tense and dangerous situation during the Flight PK-326 hijacking [4] [5] Froso Papaharalambous, singer; Iris Peterson, flew for United Airlines from 1946 until 2007, retiring at the age of 85
Vesna Vulović was born in Belgrade on 3 January 1950. [1] [2] Her father was a businessman and her mother was a fitness instructor. [2]Driven by her love of the Beatles, Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English language skills.
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.
This sculpture was sent to the Delta Air Lines shuttle concourse at LaGuardia Airport in New York City in 1995. A second wax figure was unveiled in Singapore in March 2015. In March 2004, the Singapore Girl won the "Outstanding Contribution to Tourism" award for the 18th Singapore Tourism Board's Tourism Award.
She left the show after a few episodes and later became popular after a TV series, Air Hostess aired on Doordarshan in 1986, and received critical acclaim for her roles in Dance of the Wind (1997), Deepa Mehta's Earth (1998), Govind Nihalani's Rukhmavati Ki Haveli (1991), Kamal Haasan's Abhay and Deham (2001). [2]
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (IATA: AQ243, ICAO: AAH243) was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking due to poor maintenance and metal fatigue.