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TV Show Key to Passenger's Actions on Flydubai Plane

A passenger who overpowered an attacker on a Flydubai flight and prevented a crash says a TV series helped him know what to do in the cockpit.

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TV show key to passenger's actions on Flydubai plane

A passenger who overpowered an attacker on a Flydubai flight and prevented a crash says a TV series helped him know what to do in the cockpit.

·Osborne Park, Australia
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The Canadian documentary series Mayday, which investigates plane crashes, has been receiving widespread attention following the FlyDubai flight disaster.

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An Israeli passenger who learned how to stabilize crashing planes from a TV show about air disasters helped save a flight to Tel Aviv with more than 170 passengers on board after the co-pilot stabbed the plane's captain.

·Budapest, Hungary
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One of the passengers who contributed to the rescue of Flydubai flight, with 174 people on board and who was heading for Tel Aviv from the crash, says he knew how to stabilize a plane lying on the shore because he was watching a TV series about air accidents, writes Reuters. Yaniv Hayun, aged 50...

·Romania
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‘Mayday: Air Disasters' Reproduction A passenger considered a hero on board a flight from FlyDubai on Wednesday (30) would have attributed the merit to a Canadian documentary series by teaching him to take control of the aircraft and avoid a catastrophic fall. According to his own report, Israeli Yaniv Hayun stated that he pulled the commands up and managed to stop the sudden fall of the plane because he was accompanying "Mayday: Air Disasters".…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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India Today broke the news in Noida, India on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
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