Smit Machchhar, the hero Flydubai captain who repelled a savage attack by his co-pilot, continued to fight because he could not “let everyone die”, he said in his first public remarks since Wednesday’s alleged hijack attempt.
“At that time, I was fighting for my life,” Machchhar told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a video call on Friday. “Because I had fallen… I was so badly injured that I had fallen… at that time I was thinking: what if I don’t get up?
A horrific mid-air disaster aboard a Tel Aviv-bound plane was averted thanks to a stunning turn of events Wednesday when passengers and crew bravely rushed into the cockpit and regained control of the plane.
Machchhar said he was on the ground in the cockpit when he realized the plane was crashing.
“And I knew in that moment: One last shot, Smit! Do it. The door is right there,” he told Modi. “And even then he was beating me. »
“And then I opened it… and then everyone came,” he said, referring to several other passengers who then rushed into the cockpit and restrained his attacker.
“I was doing this for my life, but at the same time I knew I couldn’t let everyone die.”
This is a developing story and will be updated…
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