Netanyahu invites Indian pilot who saved flydubai flight to Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited the Indian skipper of a flydubai formation bound for Tel Aviv to sojourn Israel arsenic his impermanent of honour aft reportedly redeeming the craft pursuing an onslaught successful the cockpit.

Netanyahu extended the invitation to Captain Smit Machchhar during a telephone conversation, describing him arsenic a leader of some India and Israel arsenic good arsenic the wider world.

“You are a existent leader of the brave peoples of India and Israel, and you are a leader of the full world,” Netanyahu said successful a video of the speech released by his bureau connected Saturday.

The improvement followed a connection by the UAE Attorney General, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, who said preliminary findings from an probe indicated that the co-pilot of the flydubai formation had attempted to transportation retired what helium described arsenic a “terrorist act”.

According to the authoritative UAE quality agency, WAM, Al Shamsi said the co-pilot allegedly utilized the exigency axe successful the cockpit to onslaught the skipper earlier attempting to instrumentality power of the aircraft.

“The co-pilot had attempted to transportation retired a violent act” and had “attacked the skipper successful the cockpit with the exigency axe and tried to instrumentality power of the aircraft,” WAM quoted the Attorney General arsenic saying.

The Israel-bound formation was diverted connected Wednesd...