India, Oct. 2 -- President Donald Trump has threatened to hit Iran "very hard" if it is found to be behind a plot to hijack a FlyDubai flight in which a pilot stabbed his colleague in the cockpit earlier this week.
FlyDubai's flight FZ1073, carrying 174 passengers from Dubai, was flying to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when Captain Smit Machchhar was attacked by his Omani co-pilot.
The Indian commercial pilot who has flown Boeing 737 aircraft for more than a decade managed to open the door of the cockpit so that the flight's crew and passengers could overpower the attacker, while two reserve pilots, who were in the plane, took control and the aircraft made an emergency landing at Saudi Arabia's Tabuk Airport.
After the attack, the uncontrolled p...