Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smit Machchhar was described as 'a true hero' by Benjamin Netanyahu - Linkedin An Indian pilot was stabbed by his co-pilot aboard ...

Capt Smit Machchhar was attacked by another pilot onboard the Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has named the pilot who was stabbed during the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight, calling him a “true hero”. In a post on X, he wrote: “My salute to ...

The pilot who unlocked the cockpit door of a hijacked Flydubai flight after getting stabbed to allow passengers to storm the cockpit was identified by officials as Indian national Smit Machchhar.