The whole story is so ridiculously deus-ex-machina theres no way it would make it as a movie script if it werent real. the pilot surviving the stabs and being able to open the door, the two spare pilots as passangers just able to land safely, the dentist stiching the pilot up and him surviving the stab wound. Would feel like a cheesy 90's feelgood action movie if it werent real.
A friend generalist doctor once told me that if there's an emergency you better hope there is a nurse or a paramedic, because I can be very helpful to make a diagnosis, less so to actually do something.
Dentists is probably better than most of the doctors who don't do medical procedures regularly, something that dentists usually do
You're forgetting the craziest part -- the Israeli plumber who forced his way into the cockpit, put a chokehold on the terrorist, wrestled him away from the controls, pulled the plane out of a dive (which he knew how to do from watching the history channel show about air disasters) and then handed it over to the second flight crew that happened to be deadheading on the flight.
Exactly. Would have been another germanwings style disaster if it weren't for the captain prioritising the door regardless of personal harm to himself.
You would think so. My interaction with AI bots love to spout confidently wrong instructions and when I ask for the source they always apologize and link some outdated article with old steps
tl;dr: An Indian pilot, Smit Machchhar, saved a Dubai-to-Israel flight from crashing after his co-pilot attacked him with a knife. Despite being injured, Smit fought back and, with help from passengers, managed to restrain him...Israeli officials said the attacker was an Omani national...Israeli agencies are also investigating the possibility of a terrorist attack.
The pilot is a hero, but that's not exactly what happened. The pilot was badly injured and likely managed to open the cockpit door before collapsing. With the door open several Israel passengers barged in, restrained the the attacker, and a doctor gave medical attention to the pilot
There seems to be multiple versions of the story, so might be best to be skeptical of these articles for now and read up on it in a day or two. This one says he fought back, so I'll leave it in the summary.
By common logic one can easily inter that a scuffle and struggle would have unfolded prior to the crash attempt to secure the odds of its success. Several stab wounds indicate a pure intent to kill and immobilise the person.
Then it wouldn't be in /r/pics , which would be correct because that's not where it belongs. It's an uninteresting cell phone photo of a pilot. The post belongs as a story... elsewhere.
I hope his injuries aren't to severe or life changing/limiting
Older attempt but wasn't there a American fedex or another of those delivery companies that had a similar deal with a flight engineer hijack the plane. They stopped it but all of them were so badly injured there flight careers were over sadly
this might be one of the most insane articles I have ever read on Wikipedia. The Pilot flew the plane nearly upside down to deter the attacker and subdue him - after being struck by a hammer that send bone shards into his brain. Wild stuff.
Not just trying to fly a plane, but spinning it in ways it is not meant do go including flying it upside down in a nosedive at 550 mph and managing to pull out of it even though the right side of your body has stopped working and you've suffered traumatic head damage
I'll remember those pilots next time I complain about lag on a video game
Out of interest I just looked up that video and it's nearly 6 hours long! Why in the world did that need 5 hours 51 minutes to describe the events of that flight? Granted I know nothing about it, but 6 hours is a long video.
“About 26 minutes after takeoff, as the plane was passing 19,000 feet (5,791 m), and the flight crew carried on a casual conversation, Calloway went into the back to get his weapons, entered the flight deck, and attacked Peterson, Tucker, and Sanders. All three members of the crew received multiple blows from a hammer. Both Peterson and Tucker, the first officer, suffered fractured skulls, and Peterson'stemporal arterywas severed.[5]The blow to Tucker's head drilled shards of bone into his brain and temporarily rendered him unable to move or react, but he was still conscious. Captain Sanders reported that during the beginning of the attack, he could not discern any emotion from Calloway, just "simply a face and his eyes".[3] When Calloway ceased his hammer attack, Peterson and Sanders began to get out of their seats to go after Calloway. Calloway left the cockpit and retrieved his speargun. He came back into the cockpit and threatened everyone to sit back down in their seats. Despite a loud ringing in his ear and being unbalanced and dazed, Peterson grabbed the gun by the spear between the barbs and the barrel. Tucker, an ex-Navy pilot, performed extreme aerial maneuvers with the aircraft as the struggle between Calloway and the other crew members ensued.[9]He pulled the plane into a sudden 15° climb, throwing Sanders, Peterson, and Calloway out of the cockpit and into thegalley). To try to throw Calloway off balance, Tucker then turned the plane into a left roll, almost on its side. This rolled the men along the smoke curtain onto the left side of the galley.[3] Eventually, Tucker rolled the plane almost upside down at 140°, while attempting to maintain a visual reference of the environment around him through the windows. Peterson, Sanders, and Calloway were then pinned to the plane's ceiling. Calloway managed to wrench his hammer hand free and hit Sanders in the head again. Just then, Tucker put the plane into a steep dive.[3][9]This pushed the men back to the smoke curtain, but the wings and elevators started to flutter. At this point, Tucker could hear the wind rushing against the cockpit windows. At a speed of 460 knots (530 mph; 850 km/h), the plane's elevators fluttered so much that the control surfaces became unresponsive due to the disrupted airflow. This lack of control tested the aircraft's safety limits. Tucker also began to sense aMach tuckeffect as the airflow over the wings approached the speed of sound. Tucker realized the throttles were at full power, increasing the speed of the aircraft. Releasing his only usable hand to pull back the throttles to idle, he managed to pull the plane out of the dive as it slowed down.”
Yeah, that was in 1994. The FedEx Flight 705 attack on April 7, 1994, involved off-duty FedEx flight engineer Auburn Calloway, who attempted to hijack a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 cargo plane. He attacked the pilot and co-Pilot with a Hammer causing serious Brain damage to the pilot.
Yep. Bro knew he was about to get fired so he decided to cash in his company life insurance. IIRC, it paid extra if he died on the job. He used a hammer because the injuries it would cause wouldn’t be distinguishable from the trauma inflicted by a plane crash.
Despite their horrific injuries, the crew managed to subdue him and land the plane. One pilot flew all kinds of crazy maneuvers to disorient the hijacker while the other fought him for the hammer. When the authorities entered the flight deck and jump seat area after landing, there were bloody footprints on the ceiling (and blood everywhere else).
One of the things I am curious about with the latest incident is whether the dive the plane went into was actually purposeful, either by the attacker, or by Smit trying to throw off the attacker, or if the yokes were pushed unintentionally during the attack.
If I understand the news currently it was straight dive down if he wanted to throw the attacker off a side or tilting the craft like banking heavily to one side seems like it would have been better. But that's speculation currently.
I used to work at FedEx and all the employees hated that guy. Employees used to fly for free anywhere in the world prior to that event. They stopped offering it as a perk afterward.
The pilots I know have massive insurance for events that end their career, plus he probably also has massive insurance for work related injuries. So hopefully he's set for life.
Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv earlier today. Omani pilot stabbed his Indian co-pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar, and the airplane started to free fall as the Omani pilot intended to seize control and fly it into Israel in a 9/11 style attack. Machchhar despite being stabbed was able to open the cockpit door and signal for help and multiple passengers including a dentist named Shota Musaev rushed in and subdued the terrorist.
Musaev then used his skills as a dentist to stitch up Machchhar who is currently in stable condition and expected to survive.
They have significantly more medical training than most people. Field medicine and first aid is probably well within the skill set of a dentist. He just needed to keep him alive until there was better help.
I always picture wild stories that just keep adding layers like this being told like Kramer telling Jerry about the bus “they kept ringing the bell!” https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYyv6UK0Bd4DE76
Quote from a random passenger that helped subdue the terrorist is crazy as well. Maybe should be taken with a grain of salt, but it's basically what every 12 year old avgeek daydreams about lol
If someone wants to hand them over to the country they left from they can, if they want to prosecute them there, they can. If the guy admits he wanted to crash into Israel and they wanted to hand him to Israel? They could.
There’s precedent for crimes like this where the location of jurisdiction is up in the air, but it’s all just determined by countries diplomatic inclinations ultimately.
Same way some people do a crime, flee to a country that doesn’t like the other country or have laws against what they did, and they’re still walking around free.
'Funny' thing is, regardless of which country he gets handed to, they all have death penalty, so that part of my prediction remains unchanged regardless of prosecuting country
Diplomatically, it would be best for relations if it WASN'T Israel, as then he becomes a martyr since "Israel" sentenced him and executed him. An Arab country doing the same sends a message.
This really confuses the fuck out of me. You have to spend a LOT of time and money to become a commercial airline pilot. It is literally years of training that costs a small fortune. If terror cells are going to that length just to take out one plane we are kinda fucked.
I've thought about that too. But the average co pilot pay for this airline is around $150,000 dollars a year. How do you radicalize someone with access to the world that's living the good life? I agree it's more likely than someone entering the field just for this purpose, but it still seems like a crazy ass story.
Keep in mind, Osama bin Laden was the son of a billionaire and could have lived an easy, care-free life if he wanted to. Ideas can have a lot of weight.
Dunno, but it is becoming a regular occurrence. Your pilot killing himself and taking everyone else with him is probably the biggest risk when flying these days. German wings, MH370, that Air India flight where he turned off the fuel...
That's exactly what I've been thinking about all day. Aside from Boeing programming their planes to aim at the ground, this is the biggest danger in flying.
Plenty of famous, ridiculously rich people have committed suicide. I imagine that suicidal people are particularly easy to radicalize. Money helps you be happy, but it does not guarantee happiness.
And for that matter, there's also suicidal people who are not radicalized. MH370 has long been theorized to be a pilot suicide, for example.
Apparently studies indicate that a substantial portion of people who are radicalized come from middle-class, ordinary, or even educated and professional backgrounds.
My friend is a pilot, he started with a new airline a few years ago, and because of his history he was moved up to captain within a year.
One of the co-pilots had been with the airline for over 5yrs.
This guy will never move up to captain- why? Because he deliberately watches the warning signals that he is responsible for turn on, and not mention them until moments before they become an emergency.
When my friend noticed this, he realised he couldn’t have bathroom breaks around this co-pilot anymore.
The process to have the co-pilot removed would be too hard to prove, and take several reported occurrences before anything could be done.
Well I believe there is a union of pilots that won’t tolerate that sort of treatment. Amazon doesn’t give their employees that chance. I’m with the pilots on this one.
He could have been suicidal for all we know at this point. There was that first officer in Germany who decided to up and crash an entire jetliner into a mountain because he didn't want to live anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
It used to be relatively common, especially in asia where from what i remember there were a couple dozen crashes suspected as suicides, then the famous germanwings case happened and today the checks are so thorough it would be very unlikely to happen purely as a suicide
And even if it was terrorism, I doubt if he became a pilot for this reason. He probably did it as a passion and a career and then became radicalized later.
Thank goodness for this captain and the people behind him that took fate into their own hands and helped- Shota Musaev and Smit Machchhar should be everywhere right now.
They shouldn’t have ever had to do this, but were forced to in the moment and became more than just another story of hate.
India is going through a phase of anti - india propaganda right now. China went through it too. Doesn't matter what you do, it will continue for a while
What was happening to the plane as they subdued the attacker? Like there had to be a few minutes from cry for help to full subduing. Was the plane just cruising on auto pilot steady and straight?
Holy shit. They made ot by the skin of their teeth. Those people are so lucky to be alive. I hope they heal. I dont think a single one has left the plane you know? They're visiting that plane every night for life.
Impressive. Historically, hard pulls out of a deep dive rarely end well - you're pushing the structural limits of the plane to their max. They're not made to handle supersonic speeds at all, let alone hard G manoeuvres that really mess with wing limits.
Good thing they were at 18k, closer to the ground wouldn't have ended so well I suspect.
Honestly I’m surprised that’s all that was damaged… only 30 seconds I guess but every second after that could have ended in more damage or a breakup. It’s happened before.
What an absolutely fucked thing he had to jump in to but credit to the man for doing what was right in spite of it all. This is what true leadership and responsibility looks like, cannot commend the captain enough.
to add more into this heroic story, two off-duty flight crew Ukrainian and Russian pilots both took control of the plane and managed to land the plane safely
Edit
So there seems to be articles saying different nationalities, so I apologize for misinformation
The original rumors said that a Ukrainian and a russian copilot fought in the cockpit.
The reddit propagandists are trying to get ahead of the story and the actual events have still not been confirmed. We're going to need to wait a couple days until more details are made available and everyone is interrogated properly and official incident reports for aviation agencies are made.
મચ્છર or मच्छर, common Gujju last name for Nagar brahmins along with haathi (elephant), maankad (bedbug) and mankodi (large female black ant).
To clarify, Nagar brahmins often held surnames awarded by rulers under whom they held prestigious administrative positions. So the surnames come from the village they served. Like hathap becomes haathi or mankadvada becomes mankad.
One of the many meanings of Machchhar ( मच्छर) is Vigour or Passion ( जुनून, जोश) as per Gujarati encyclopedia Bhagvad Gomandal Kosh
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u/CFH75 20h ago
Pilot on Pilot is fucking wild.