A series of extraordinary events – from a heavily wounded captain Smit Machchhar unlocking the cockpit door to two off-duty pilots taking control – turned a potential aviation disaster into a miraculous escape for 174 passengers
“Believe in miracles,” Dr Shota Musaev, who was aboard the Israel-bound flydubai aircraft that survived a potential hijacking attempt by its Omani co-pilot, told Channel 15. He may not have been wrong. Call it a chain of miracles or a series of extraordinary interventions, but without them, the incident could have ended as one of the deadliest aviation disasters in recent history.
