TV Show Key to Passenger's Actions on Flydubai Plane
- Yaniv Hayoun helped overpower a co-pilot who attacked Captain Smit Machchhar during Flydubai flight FZ1073.
- Hayoun entered the cockpit and pulled back the controls after the aircraft plunged thousands of feet.
- Hayoun said the television series “Mayday,” also known as “Air Crash Investigation,” helped him know what to do.
- An off-duty pilot took control, and the aircraft made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
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The Canadian documentary series Mayday, which investigates plane crashes, has been receiving widespread attention following the FlyDubai flight disaster.
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An Israeli passenger who learned how to stabilize crashing planes from a TV show about air disasters helped save a flight to Tel Aviv with more than 170 passengers on board after the co-pilot stabbed the plane's captain.
One of the passengers who contributed to the rescue of Flydubai flight, with 174 people on board and who was heading for Tel Aviv from the crash, says he knew how to stabilize a plane lying on the shore because he was watching a TV series about air accidents, writes Reuters. Yaniv Hayun, aged 50...
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