Heroes save over 100 lives

The Jerusalem Post reports:

A flydubai commercial passenger aircraft flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to and landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning after what Israeli officials said was an attempted hijacking by one of the pilots that led to a mid-air altercation.

An Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post a “major disaster was narrowly avoided” amid growing fears that one of the pilots attempted to hijack the plane with the intention of crashing it into the ground. Additional flight crew, aided by Israelis on board the flight, managed to subdue the pilot and bring him under control, the official told the Post.

One pilot stabbed the co-pilot and tried to crash the plane. Cpt. Smit Machchhar is the FlyDubai pilot who was stabbed by his co-pilot. He fought back and reportedly managed to open the cockpit door after he was stabbed, allowing passengers to enter and subdue the co-pilot.

If correct, the co-pilot and the passengers saves the lives of everyone on board. When so many people would panic, they acted.