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Cerfia reported that Smit Machchhar, an Indian pilot for FlyDubai for 17 years, had been stabbed in the head and seriously injured in the arm by his co-pilot in mid-flight. He said he realized, feeling the movements of the aircraft, that the plane was falling, before collapsing to the ground. According to Cerfia, Machchhar had managed to get up and open the cockpit door, allowing Israeli passengers to subdue the co-pilot. The plane had then lost more than 4,200 meters of altitude in 30 seconds. The pilot explained that he was trying to save himself while knowing he could not let the passengers die. Cerfia added that Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu had praised the captain. After an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, Machchhar had been transferred to a hospital in the United Arab Emirates, where he continued his recovery, according to the account reported by Fox News. #PilotHero #AviationSafety #FlightIncident (translated)

The captain of the FlyDubai aircraft, Smit Machchhar, bravely took control of the situation after being attacked by the co-pilot during the flight, amid a dramatic struggle for life, and thus saved many passengers, despite serious injuries and a drop of more than 5200 meters. #PilotHeroj #DramatičniTrenuci #ZrakoplovnaNesreća (translated)

"I talked to one of the Israeli passengers. He said that the airplane started to spiral and then began to descend. He mentioned that he somehow managed to enter the cockpit with one of the flight attendants, and together they restrained the pilot who was committing the stabbing while he was trying to sabotage the aircraft's systems." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that it is becoming increasingly clear that the stabbing pilot stabbed the captain because he wanted to crash the plane, which was mainly carrying Israeli citizens. #Flydubai #terrorism #pilothero (translated)