Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up then ‘passengers would lose their lives’
The Indian pilot who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight has described how he fought for his life in the minutes after his co-pilot stabbed him and the plane began a steep descent.
Capt Smit Machchhar, who is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital, told the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, in a video call broadcast live on television news channels that he knew he had to get back on his feet to save the passengers onboard.
“I had so many wounds. I had fallen down,” he said on Friday from the hospital, his head bandaged and tubes in his nose, before breaking down as he recalled the attack.
The attacker also had to be an idiot.
I don’t understand how he didn’t succeed. He was a copilot, all he had to do was stay in the cockpit with the door closed?
Why leave and then face a crowd of people when crashing the plane would have killed everyone anyways. Also allowed other people into the cockpit to stop the descent.
I don’t think he left the cockpit at all. The door was opened by the pilot using buttons near his seat, not by the copilot.