India, Oct. 4 -- The world was shaken by the attack on Indian pilot Smit Machchhar by his co-pilot on the Dubai to Tel Aviv flydubai flight FZ1073 carrying more than 182 people, and the alleged subsequent attempt to hijack the plane on Wednesday. While the danger was averted, it could have looked very different if there hadn't been two mystery pilots on the flight who turned back and ultimately landed the plane in Saudi Arabia.

But who are the mystery pilots who stepped in to stabilise the flight as it hurtled toward disaster?

As of Sunday morning, four days after the flydubai flight plummeted by around 17,000 feet amid the panic aboard, the identities of the two spare pilots who were miraculously on the plane still haven't been publicl...