India, Oct. 1 -- Stabbed mid-air and bleeding on the cockpit floor, flydubai captain Smit Machchhar found the strength to release the door lock. That let passengers rush in, subdue the attacker and bring the jet down safely in Saudi Arabia. Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu have both hailed him as a hero. Read the bravery story of Smit Machchhar and others.

The jet was still climbing out of Dubai when the cockpit of flydubai flight FZ1073 became a scene of violence.

Captain Smit Machchhar, a Mumbai-born pilot who lives in Dubai, was stabbed by his own first officer. Israeli officials and passengers say the copilot, identified by an Israeli official as an Omani national, was trying to bring the aircraft down. Netanyahu...