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Indian flydubai pilot tells Modi 'could not let all those people die'

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02-10-2026 | 04:17

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Indian flydubai pilot tells Modi 'could not let all those people die'

Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, wounded during an alleged attack by his co-pilot aboard a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight, acted to protect the plane's passengers, he told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.

"I was trying to save my own life, but I knew I could not let all those people die," Machchhar said during a call from his hospital bed, in a video posted by Modi on social media.

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