'Nidhi, you are alive. Nidhi, it was a bomb'

September 15, 2016 10:04

Nidhi Chaphekar, the Jet Airways cabin manager whose photograph became the symbol of the Brussels airport bombing horror in March, has told The Guardian of the UK that among her first thoughts after regaining consciousness were her children's exams.

If terror could not suppress her maternal instincts, concerns about her career also weighed on her mind soon after she was airlifted to a hospital.

"I asked the nurse: 'Is my face burned?' She looked at me and said: 'Why?' I said: 'My job.' Because I knew, beauty is required, to be perfect is required, being physically, mentally fit is required. I didn't want to be someone who was dependent on anyone else," she told the UK newspaper at her home in Mumbai.

Chaphekar said that when she regained consciousness on the floor of the Zaventem airport in Brussels, she could hear her own internal voice saying: "Nidhi, you're alive. Nidhi, it was a bomb. Nidhi, you have to tell your family. The children have exams. Nidhi, come on, get up."

The Belgian airport was attacked by three suicide bombers, killing 32 people and injuring over 300, including Chaphekar.

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