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Posted on 09/30/2026 12:54:42 PM PDT by Freeleesy
Yaniv Hayun, who returned to Israel with blood on his shirt, says he dragged the suspected attacker from the cockpit, then used his aviation experience to pull back on the controls until another pilot took over. Itamar Eichner|09.30.26
“I grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold and pulled him out. I called the Israelis who were with us, jumped back in and pulled the controls. I started pulling them back.” That was how Yaniv Hayun described the extraordinary moments inside the cockpit of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 after landing at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday evening, his white shirt still stained with blood.
“I have an aviation background,” Hayun told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he met at the airport. “The plane began to level out, and then the pilot told me he was taking control.” Hayun was among at least four Israelis who helped overpower the suspected attacker aboard the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight after the Omani co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain and, according to Israeli assessments, tried to crash the aircraft. Yaniv Hayun meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport He said the suspected attacker was also trying to damage the aircraft’s instruments and systems. “The pilot was trying to destroy the instruments in order to disable the plane,” Hayun recalled. Hayun said he believes the wounded captain, who was injured during the cockpit struggle, managed to unlock the cockpit door for the passengers before collapsing.
“He was very close to the door, and that made it difficult for us to open it,” Hayun said. “My conclusion is that he managed to open it for us before he collapsed.”
Hayun’s account adds another layer to testimony from passengers who described rushing toward the cockpit after hearing screams and realizing that something had gone badly wrong. Israeli dentist Musaev Shota, another passenger involved in restraining the suspect, told ynet that he ran forward after hearing shouting, helped bind the attacker and then treated the badly bleeding captain. Shota said the group tied the suspect’s hands and legs after he continued struggling and later provided emergency treatment to the wounded pilot. The flight had lost altitude rapidly during the incident before another flight crew aboard the aircraft regained control and diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Hours later, all 174 passengers, including 27 children, returned to Israel aboard another Flydubai aircraft. For Hayun, the moment the aircraft finally began to stabilize came only after passengers had fought their way into the cockpit, removed the suspected attacker and helped keep the plane under control long enough for another pilot to take over.
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God bless these brave heroes who took out this monster and saved so many lives.
Amen. It might also be flight93 heroes inspired them.
🙏🏻 ❤️
“ He was very close to the door, and that made it difficult for us to open it,” Hayun said. “My conclusion is that he managed to open it for us before he collapsed.”
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I was wondering how the passengers managed to breach the “non-breachable” cockpit door. This explains how.
It is impossible to be a jihadist without first becoming a coward.
God plays 3D chess.
Doctor on flydubai Jet Recounts Cabin Terror on C14.
By: Adam Mikhalashvili.
Editor: Asaf Nissan
Sep 30, 2026.
Dr. Shota Musaev, the physician who treated the wounded pilot aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073, spoke with Channel 14 News on Wednesday evening to describe the sheer terror at 30,000 feet. Musaev revealed that a passenger named Yaniv physically hauled the assailant out of the cockpit before locking himself inside to secure the flight deck, while the doctor desperately worked to stem severe hemorrhaging from the captain’s head and arms.
Dr. Shota Musaev, the physician who treated the wounded pilot during the attempted terror attack aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073 en route to Israel, recounted the mid-air horror during an interview with Channel 14 News on Wednesday evening, emphasizing that the passengers’ lightning-fast reaction averted a catastrophic disaster.
According to Musaev, the ordeal unfolded abruptly when the assailant launched his assault on the flight deck: “It didn’t start quietly inside the cockpit; someone breached the flight deck. The pilot was attacked, and within seconds the aircraft began banking violently in the air. At first, we assumed it was severe air turbulence, but within moments we realized it was a terror attack.”
https://www.c14news.com/article/1506615
Let’s roll.
WHENEVER ATTACKED THUMB IN THE EYE SOCKET AS FAR AS IT WILL GO
Amen.
Sounds like there was some IDF on the flight thank God.
“”””he believes the wounded captain, who was injured during the cockpit struggle, managed to unlock the cockpit door for the passengers before collapsing.””””
I wonder if his being male saved the plane, and also if Hayun being male, saved the plane.
Heroes. As for the Muslim co”pilot” send him to allah post haste.
“...the wounded captain, who was injured during the cockpit struggle, managed to unlock the cockpit door for the passengers before collapsing.”
I wonder what the Jew Haters will have to say about this attempted hijacking - that the passengers DESERVED TO DIE, or something like that?
Amen! What an astounding story.
WOW! Experienced heroes aboard the flight. It would be nice to have a complete background on this MoFo terrorist...friends, family, mosque, if anyone helped in that airline, etc.
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