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Flydubai Passenger Recounts Pilot Stabbing, Near-Crash During Flight

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The Times of Israel Security13:38

Flydubai Captain Recounts Fight for Life After Copilot Stabbing

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OriginalFlydubai captain recounts opening cockpit door with ‘last push’ after copilot stabbed him

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Captain Smit Machchhar fought his stabbing copilot to open the cockpit door, saving 174 passengers.
The copilot allegedly attempted to crash the flydubai flight to Tel Aviv.
Israeli passengers overpowered the attacker after the door was opened.
The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.
Authorities are investigating the copilot's motives, with potential links to radicalization considered.

Flydubai Captain Recounts Fight for Life After Copilot Stabbing — Editorial illustration generated by baba News — not a photograph of the event.

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“Initial investigations indicated an assault on the pilot by the co-pilot.”

per Saudi Ministry of Interior

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What this report attributes

the Omani copilot underwent Islamist radical indoctrinationper Benjamin Netanyahu
there was Iranian collusion in the hijackingper Benjamin Netanyahu
other motives, including mental illness, had not been ruled outper UAE

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