The 'militant' pilot went to the back of the cockpit before praying. In no time, a sudden blow. Not one, but one after another. Hero pilot Smit Machar describes what exactly happened in the cockpit of a flydubai flight. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to him on the phone on Saturday. The entire story of the cockpit has come up there.
What exactly happened in mid-air? Smit said, “At first everything was normal. Then my co-pilot said, pray. Many of the passenger-pilots pray like this. The co-pilot went back and started praying, but I was looking ahead. Five minutes later, I got a big blow on my head. At first I thought there was a major mechanical fault in the plane, so it felt like that.”
But within a few moments, Smit was hit on the head one after another. You can understand immediately that there is no disturbance in the plane. Co-pilot attacked. In Smith's words, “I was trying to stop him. But by then my vision was completely blurred due to continuous beatings. The plane also started descending by then. I somehow opened the cockpit door once, but he closed it again. Then I decided, I have to fight one last time. Or I will die. I opened the cockpit door again with everything I had.”
Smit said the passengers came near the cockpit on hearing the commotion. So the second time they opened the door they entered. Everyone knows the rest of the story. Captain Machar is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Abu Dhabi. His condition is now stable. Netanyahu had a phone conversation with him on Saturday. The video was released by the Israeli Prime Minister's office. In that video, it is known what exactly happened in the cockpit. Everyone is shivering thinking what would have happened if the passengers could not reach the cockpit in the end.