How Israeli men tied up flydubai co-pilot with headphone cords, saved Smit Machchhar inside cockpit
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A plumber, dentist, banker, and insurance agent played a heroic role during the cockpit fight on their flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. They pulled the aggressive co-pilot, who had seriously injured his colleague, out of the cockpit with a chokehold and tied him up with headphone cables.
Flydubai Dubai-Tel Aviv Shota Musaev, a passenger on the Flydubai flight, described how he had helped roll a second pilot who had attacked the commander, and he said that there had been a sharp shaking and that the plane had begun to fall, and the passengers almost immediately realized that something was wrong and started screaming.
He suddenly pulled out a pocket knife, savagely attacked the captain and began to destroy the dashboard. The plane and the wounded pilot were rescued by brave passengers who managed to overcome the attacker and safely ground the aircraft. Among the heroes was a dentist of Georgian origin with Israeli citizenship, Shota Musayev, who runs a dental clinic in the city of Holon, according to the Times of Israel. He told the media the frightening deta…
Fly Dubai's FZ 1073 flight left Dubai for Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning. This terrible event happened in the middle of the sky. It is reported that the three passengers who jumped into the cockpit were Javica Manes, Assaf Rajwan and Yaniv Hayun.
(Dan Tri Newspaper) - What happened on board the Flydubai plane was truly a fight for survival as the crew and passengers tried to subdue the co-pilot who intended to crash the aircraft.
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