Hamdan bin Mohammed visits the “Fly Dubai” pilot: He embodied the highest levels of courage

On Saturday, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid, Crown Prince of Dubai, visited Smit Machhar, the pilot of the Fly Dubai flight that was heading to Tel Aviv before its course changed and landed in Tabuk (northwest of Saudi Arabia), on Wednesday. Sheikh Hamdan said during the visit, “The Flydubai pilot...

He embodied the highest levels of courage, responsibility, and concern for people’s lives.” Sheikh Hamdan added: “He and the leadership of the country have all our appreciation and praise.

And part of our humanitarian experience in the UAE.. The General Authority of Civil Aviation in the UAE announced, on Friday, that the Indian pilot, Smit Machhar, who resisted an attack on a Flydubai flight heading to Tel Aviv, returned “safely to the UAE, and is in good condition and receiving the necessary treatment.”

The UAE Attorney General, Hamad Al Shamsi, said that investigations into the events that took place on board the Fly Dubai flight to Tel Aviv on Wednesday revealed that “the plane’s assistant pilot had attempted to carry out a terrorist operation.”