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- Indian captain Smit Machchhar fought off a co-pilot attacker on a flydubai Boeing 737, averting disaster.
- He was stabbed, suffered wounds and nasal tubes, then opened the cockpit door for passengers to restrain the attacker.
- The 182-person flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, for an emergency landing.
- Machchhar told Prime Minister Narendra Modi he recited the Hanuman Chalisa and is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital.