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Indian pilot wins praise after flydubai drama
For Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, hailed as a hero for averting a crash of a flydubai jet bound for Israel, aviation was never part of
Summary
It was there, at an aviation seminar, that he discovered flying when he was about 19 years old."That's where the aviation bug ... "I don't want to discuss aviation. When you walk out of the cockpit, that's it.
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People
- Smit Machchhar4
- Benjamin Netanyahu2
- Narendra Modi2
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- X.Machchhar
- Zalak Mehta
- Netanyahu
- Modi
Organisations
- Reuters2
- Welingkar Institute of Management.It
- Hindustan Times
- flydubai.The
- flydubai.In
- Flydubai
- SpiceJet
- embassy
Places
- Israel4
- India4
- Saudi Arabia3
- Tabuk3
- Mumbai2
- United Arab Emirates
- Saudi Arabia."He
- Israel.-Reuters
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Indian PM hails stabbed Indian pilot as a ‘hero’; Flydubai halts Israel flightsNewsWire English
Netanyahu and Modi hail Indian flydubai pilot as heroDaily Mirror
Netanyahu hails stabbed Indian pilot of flydubai planeHiru News - English