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Raja Krishnamoorthi will honor Captain Smit Machchhar in the Congressional Record for helping avert a Flydubai disaster and save 172 people aboard.
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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 to hijack the plane. 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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