A Flydubai pilot attacked his fellow pilot using a crash axe and tried to take control of the aircraft’s flight controls in an attempted terrorist attack, officials in the United Arab Emirates said Sa...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Captain Smit Machchhar, the injured pilot of Flydubai flight FZ1073, during a video call from his hospital bed in Abu Dhabi.

“We managed to keep the attacker neutralised for 50 minutes and land in Saudi Arabia,” Rajuan told Ynet News.