The captain of a flydubai flight whose co-pilot attacked him with an axe in an alleged bi… — @arabnews

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@arabnews's TikTok video "The captain of a flydubai flight whose co-pilot attacked him with an axe in an alleged bid to bring down the plane said one thought kept running through his head as the harrowing ordeal unfolded: "You can't die like this." Indian pilot Smit Machchhar recounts the "traumatic" experience to Sky News Arabia, from a hospital bed, in his first interview since the incident late last month in which he, passengers and other crew members were credited with averting disaster on the Tel Aviv-bound flight." has 58,223 views, 1,831 likes, 159 comments, 149 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 3.67% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted 13 days ago and runs 2 minutes 28 seconds. It has been saved 152 times.

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The capture indexed here reports 58,223 views, 1,831 likes and 159 comments.

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Across the captured metrics the engagement rate is 3.67% (likes + comments + shares over views).

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It was posted on 2026-10-17, 13 days ago.

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The captured clip runs 2 minutes 28 seconds.