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Captain Smit Machchhar from India is recovering from stab wounds he suffered in a Flydubai flight altercation.
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Airline of the United Arab Emirates
Dubai Aviation Corporation, doing business as Flydubai, is an Emirati government-owned airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The airline mainly operates out of Terminal 2 at Dubai International Airport, though some flights operate from Terminal 3. The airline operates a total of 131 destinations, serving the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe from Dubai. The company slogan is "Get Going".
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Smit is a Dutch occupational surname. It represents an archaic spelling of the Dutch word "smid" for "smith" and is the Dutch equivalent of the English and Scottish surname Smith.
More on Wikipedia ↗“When it happens to the person you know, the person you love, it breaks you,” Captain Dhaval Patel said.
The prime minister thanked Machchhar for his "remarkable" actions, saying that he "saved the spirit of the world."