Co-pilot stabbed during Flydubai flight describes lifesaving moment he opened cockpit door

Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar recounted the moments he fought to escape the cockpit after being stabbed, in his first public comments since the attempted hijacking on the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. “I was lying on the floo…
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