Flydubai pilot who averted disaster hailed as hero

Indian pilot Smit Machchhar is being hailed as a hero after his co-pilot allegedly stabbed him mid-air in a bid to crash a flydubai flight carrying 174 people. The injured pilot managed to open the cockpit door, after which passengers overpowered the co-pilot.

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