A Flydubai flight en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv witnessed a tragic breach of order when a first‑class seat‑mate stabbed the co‑pilot, tipping the aircraft into a 5,200‑metre (17,000‑ft) plunge that lasted less than two minutes.
According to the story relayed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the blood‑stained pilot named Captain Smit Machchhar began to lose consciousness just after the attack. Fellow passengers, led by Yaniv Hayun, locked the cockpit door and wrestled the attacker into a chokehold, pulling him inside as a crew member finally opened the panel.
Hayun then pushed into the cockpit and, drawing on long‑viewed clips of “Air Crash Investigation,” ran the wheel‑steering controls, pulling the plane from the abrupt descent. Sky‑diving the control authority to an on‑board co‑pilot in the passenger cabin, the aircraft gradually stabilized and eventually landed safely at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, before a repatriation flight carried the survivors to Ben Gurion Airport.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, called the incident an “attempted jihadist terror attack.” The attacker, a Saudi national, was apprehended and is awaiting questioning by local authorities, while the stabbed pilot is in stable condition in a Saudi hospital.
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