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FACTS (verified — AP, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, Oct 1, 2026):• A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 people aboard was attacked mid-air — the copilot stabbed the captain in an apparent attempt to crash the plane• The plane descended so sharply that most of its tail rudder was ripped off — aviation experts are surprised it survived• Passenger Yaniv Hayoun forced the cockpit open, subdued the attacker and steadied the controls — he said he learned how from television shows• The wounded captain, Smit Machchhar, opened the cockpit door from inside despite his injuries, allowing passengers to intervene• Dentist Shota Musayev treated the wounded captain mid-flight• The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia; the attacker, an Omani national, was arrested• Netanyahu embraced Hayoun: "I look at you and I see a lion"• Netanyahu said it is too early to say if Iran was involved
NOTE: This video reports verified events AND the public skepticismcirculating on social media ("too cinematic", "staged"). No evidenceof staging exists at the time of writing. We present both — you decide.⚠️ AI-generated satire for commentary. All quotes verbatim from publicstatements.
174 people landed safe. That part is true. Hero or script — your call




 

Flydubai pilot was stabbed in head, had arm ‘split in two’ before flight saved by ‘superheroes,’ Netanyahu says​

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Patrick Reilly
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 11:09 a.m. ET
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The Flydubai pilot attacked in the attempted hijacking of his Israel-bound plane was stabbed in the head and had his arm “split in two,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Thursday — praising the “superhero” passengers who saved the plane in drama like “Hollywood on steroids.”

Heroic Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, was seen almost unconscious and covered in blood after he was attacked Wednesday by his co-pilot, an “Islamist radical” on a suicide mission to bring down their flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Netanyahu told “Fox and Friends.”

“He was stabbed in the head, and his arm was basically split in two, and there was a lot of blood,” Netanyahu revealed of the horrific injuries the pilot suffered.

Captain Smit Machchhar smiling in the cockpit of an airplane.4
Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian captain of flydubai Flight 1073, who fought back after being stabbed in the cockpit and managed to unlock the cockpit door to allow passengers and crew to intervene.Israel Foreign Ministry
Israeli passenger Yaniv Hayoun, with blood stains on his shirt, welcomed at Ben Gurion International Airport after an emergency landing.4
Israeli passenger Yaniv Hayoun, with blood stains on his shirt, who was aboard a Flydubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, is welcomed at the arrivals gate at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.AP Photo/Tomer Appelbaum

Netanyahu could barely hide his admiration at the heroics then displayed by passengers, including a plumber, who rushed in as their jet plummeted 17,000 feet in just two minutes, with no one in control.

They subdued the attacker, tying him up with a headphone cord, while others — including off-duty pilots thankfully flying as passengers — took over the controls to keep the plane from crashing in the Arabian desert.

“These are ordinary civilians, you know Israeli citizens, who became heroes — superheroes,” Netanyahu said with clear astonishment at the bravery.


“They got control over the situation and we could be sitting today in a 9-11 tragedy, with bodies scattered in the desert,” he said.

“This is Hollywood on steroids. You can’t make this up. You can’t believe that it actually happens in real life — but it did.”

The Israeli leader said a dentist who was on board ran over to help stabilize the injured pilot, who was seen in harrowing footage lying on his back in the galley beside a blood-spattered wall with an oxygen mask over his mouth.

FlyDubai Captain Smit Machchhar lying injured and receiving medical attention following an attack.4
FlyDubai Captain Smit Machchhar is seen injured in a video circulated Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. Machchhar was stabbed repeatedly by an unidentified co-pilot in an attempt to crash a flight en route to Tel Aviv, Israel, from Dubai.e2w
Two relief pilots on the jet who were slated to skipper a subsequent flight were able to stabilize the Boeing 737 Max for an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

The co-pilot, who was seen in footage bound and clad in a blood-soaked pilot’s uniform, repeatedly begged the crew to kill him, Netanyahu said.


Here’s the latest on the Israel-bound plane suspected terror attack:​


“It’s clear he was suicidal. That’s not a question. It was clear he was going to down that plane,” he told Fox.

The prime minister said the co-pilot, who has not yet been publicly identified, had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination” before the attack — although he could not say for certain whether or not he was connected to Iran or another terrorist organization.

He had reportedly worked with Flydubai for less than a year.

A Flydubai Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane parked on an airfield with passengers boarding via stairs.4
A pilot on flydubai flight FZ1073 was stabbed several times by the jet’s co-pilot in the cockpit, causing the aircraft to plunge almost 20,000 feet.obtained by NY Post
It’s also unclear whether the co-pilot attacked the pilot with a knife he had brought on board or with an axe standard to the plane’s equipment. Netanyahu also noted Israel has constraints barring pilots from countries it does not have diplomatic relations with, like Oman, from flying into the country.

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“Obviously there was a loophole here, and we’re taking care of that, among other things,” Netanyahu said.
 
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