Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed by his co-pilot in an alleged attempt to crash a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv, has shared a public account of how he managed to open the cockpit door and let passengers take control of the plane despite his injuries. Speaking on Friday from a hospital bed in Abu Dhabi via video call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Machchhar said that he knew the aircraft was going down as he lay bleeding on the floor. “I had suffered so many injuries that I had collapsed. At that time, I could feel that the aircraft was going down . I knew this was the last push, that the door was right there,” he said in a nearly 10-minute video released on the prime minister’s social media channels.
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