One of the pilots had been stabbed by another. The passengers pinned down the attacker. And there were blood stains all over.
It was pure chaos on board flydubai’s flight FZ 1073.
“It felt like, that’s it. It’s over. He recalled seeing the cockpit door slightly open and an attempt to push someone out. The aircraft suddenly went into a steep dive and an intense spin, he recounted, adding that he believed it was a terrorist attack. An Indian pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar, was stabbed when he tried to stop him. Some passengers and the crew members eventually broke into the cockpit and subdued the attacker.
September 11 is happening again,” he told Channel 12. Nick Schifrin, defence correspondent with Newshour , also made a 9/11 reference.
One of them, identified as Daniel, said the plane made a steep dive with nose down during the confrontation. Citing senior Israeli officials, he said the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight incident was designed to be a “9/11-style attack”. Narrating the sequence of events on the flydubai flight, Daniel said he was alerted when he heard a fight happening in cockpit. He said he heard screams and saw blood on the floor as the injured pilot was brought out of the cockpit. In its version of what actually occurred on Fly, Israeli authorities said one of the pilots tried to sabotage the aircraft’s systems. The suspect has been arrested and is being questioned in Saudi custody, said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
