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Smit Machchhar is an Indian commercial pilot who, while working as the captain of Flydubai Flight 1073, was attacked by first officer Hamam al-Hammami in the cockpit who attempted an aircraft hijacking. Machchhar received life-threatening injuries in the attack, but managed to open the cockpit door from the inside, allowing crew and passengers to intervene and subdue the attacker. The airplane then safely made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, with no fatalities.
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Flydubai hijack plot probe widens as UAE authorities reportedly arrest two Maldivian pilots over their alleged links to the September 30 FZ1073 cockpit incident.
Two Maldivian flydubai pilots detained in UAE amid alleged plot by an Omani co-pilot to hijack and crash a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight.
A passenger aboard the flydubai flight on which Indian captain Smit Machchhar was attacked by his co-pilot has alleged that members of the cabin crew attempted to loosen the accused attacker’s restraints and tried to put a mysterious pill into the injured pilot’s mouth.