The Flydubai captain who was stabbed by his copilot has described how he fought to save the airplane with nearly 180 passengers. “Even with my eyes closed, I know exactly what is happening in the cockpit. When I was lying on the floor, I could sense the aircraft was going down,” Smit Machchhar told Indian
Last year, Machchhar spoke about how he started flying and his experiences as a pilot on a podcast called Bona-Fide Banter. Aviation, he said, was “never a childhood dream”. When he was around 19, he joined a management course, planning to work for his family’s business. But then he came across an aviation seminar and
