"All it takes many months before I fly, I will smile to passengers'

Nidhi Chaphekar was one of the two women from the photo that went around the world after the attack in Zaventem. The Indian stewardess would accompany a flight to Mumbai and had just signed up at the airport when the disaster struck. They escaped the first bomb, but then she ran away she was still gripped by the bomb of the second terrorist. And who made ​​more injuries than the iconic photograph suggests.

Nidhi had burns on her face, on her back, arms, legs and abdomen. Her right leg was broken in so many places that her friends compare it with "a scrap, so flexible." And behind her eye doctors discovered a nail, stopped by the terrorists in the bombs to make as many victims.

In order to be able to recover from her injuries, Nidhi was placed in an artificial coma as well as possible. Meanwhile, she says it so well that she can to her home in India, reports Het Laatste Nieuws. A newspaper reporter was able to talk to her alone. And she was remarkably optimistic.

"There were times when even the most optimistic doctors thought I would not make it. But look, here I am. I know I have to go a long way. But even if it takes a month, once I go back to work as a stewardess. Then I will smile again to the passengers, "she said to her departure for the Paris airport.

And if she now hates those iconic photograph? "It's definitely not my best photo. But by that picture, thousands of people around the world prayed for me and spoken to me courage.Because of that image my family knew in India pretty quickly that I was still alive. The pictures saved my life. "

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