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Story summary
- Yaniv Hayun, an Israeli plumber, pulled a flydubai co-pilot from the controls, stopping a hijacking.
- The aircraft dropped nearly 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds, carrying about 180 passengers.
- U.S. President Donald Trump praised Hayun as a hero in a TikTok video on Friday.
- Hayun met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport, where Netanyahu said the co-pilot was radicalized.