Opinion | 34,000 Ft Terror: Israel’s ‘Victim Or Aggressor’ Question Returns

Opinion | 34,000 Ft Terror: Israel’s ‘Victim Or Aggressor’ Question Returns

If 166 Israelis go home tonight without a scratch, it is all down to the bravery of one single Indian, Captain Smit Machchhar

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Three years after the butchery of October 7, the horror of terrorism appears to have taken to the skies.

If 166 Israelis go home tonight without a scratch, it is all down to the bravery of one single Indian. Captain Smit Machchhar, flying a Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Dubai to Tel Aviv, was reportedly attacked inside the cockpit by his Omani co-pilot. What began as a routine flight turned into a terrifying mid-air struggle, hundreds of miles from its Israeli destination.

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