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Story summary
- Captain Smit Machchhar was stabbed by the co-pilot on Flydubai Flight FZ1073.
- Machchhar opened the cockpit door and helped passengers subdue the attacker.
- Two off-duty European pilots landed the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Machchhar’s actions extraordinary bravery and opened a terrorism investigation.
- All 174 passengers, including 27 children, and crew survived, while injured pilots were taken to a Saudi hospital.
