'You Can't Die Like This': Flydubai Pilot Recalls Attack in First TV Interview

'The plane was diving': Flydubai pilot recounts cockpit attack

Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar recounts brutal attack in cockpit as Flight 1073 plunged, struggling to stay conscious and regain control; despite his ordeal, he vows to fly again.

'You can't die like this': flydubai pilot recalls attack in first TV interview

The captain of a flydubai flight whose co-pilot attacked him with an axe in an alleged bid to bring down the plane said one thought kept running through his head as the harrowing ordeal unfolded: "You can't die like this."Indian pilot Smit Machchhar recounted the "traumatic" experience to Sky News Arabia in his first interview...

‘You can't die like this’: flydubai pilot recalls attack in first interview

Indian pilot Smit Machchhar recounted the “traumatic” experience to Sky News Arabia in his first interview since the incident. Read more at straitstimes.com.

'I can't die like this': flydubai pilot recounts ordeal of cockpit attack

"My vision was restricted to a few inches," said the flydubai pilot - effect of being struck in the head with an axe by his co-pilot

Indian pilot Smit Machchhar recounts flydubai cockpit attack: ‘Smit, do something. You can’t die like this’

Machchhar said he was screaming his colleague's name and trying to operate the switch to open the door when he lost consciousness for the first time.