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The incident occurred on board a Flydubai aircraft flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The co-pilot attacked his colleague with a knife, after which passenger Yaniv Hayon intervened and helped neutralize the attacker.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the passenger who neutralized the armed Flydubai pilot. Ynet writes about this.
Their meeting took place at Ben Gurion Airport. Passenger Yaniv Hayon came out to the Prime Minister wearing a bloody T-shirt. It is clarified that Khayon helped neutralize the co-pilot, who attacked a colleague with a knife.
“I grabbed the attacker, began to choke him and pulled him out of the cabin. I called for help and pulled the wheel, pulled it back. The plane began to level off, and then the pilot (from among the passengers - note from Lenta.ru) told me that he was taking control,” he said about what happened.
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