The video, filmed from a seat near the flydubai aircraft’s cockpit, was likely sH๏τ after Captain Smit Machchhar unlocked the cockpit door – a decisive move that prevented a mᴀssive disaster.
It allowed pᴀssengers to rush into the cockpit and overpower the co-pilot, who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed underwent “radical Islamist indoctrination” and was “clearly suicidal”.
FLYDUBAI HORROR: NEW VIDEO CAPTURES CHAOS
In the video, one person can be heard saying “he tried to crash the plane”, in reference to the Omani co-pilot who stabbed the captain. It is yet to be confirmed whether the co-pilot carried a knife or used the fire axe that is factory-fitted in the cockpit for the attack.
Others are seen shouting “take him out”, as another pᴀssenger is heard ordering people in the cabin to “sit down”.
The footage also shows a pᴀssenger wearing a blood-stained white T-shirt near the cockpit. The pᴀssenger is likely Yaniv Hayun, an Israeli plumber, who subdued the co-pilot and also steered the aircraft’s levers to prevent it from nosediving
The video then shows the people near the cockpit calling for a doctor. Dr SH๏τa Musaev, an Israeli dentist, is then seen rushing to the front of the plane.
Later, in an exclusive interview with India Today, Dr Musaev described the chilling moment.
“He (Machchhar) was lying on the floor, was conscious, but lost a lot of blood. He had deep cuts in his arms and neck,” he said.
The next second, a man is seen asking in Hebrew whether there was an additional pilot on the flight. A voice can be heard responding affirmatively from the back of the cabin
‘HIT ME SO MANY TIMES’
Another video that has gone viral showed a bloodied Captain Machchhar, with an oxygen mask on, lying on the ground outside the cockpit. It was probably sH๏τ after the earlier video.
He (co-pilot) “hit me so many times”, Machchhar is seen explaining to the pᴀssengers. He then says that he can move his injured hand but can no longer squeeze it shut.
“My hand can move, but I can’t do this. I can’t squeeze my hand,” he is heard saying. Another video, posted by the ᴀssociated Press, shows a pᴀssenger urging the captain “not to sleep”
The wounded attacker, whose uniform is also covered in blood, is also seen nearby. Netanyahu said the pᴀssengers told him that the co-pilot shouted “kill me, kill me” after he was overpowered.
The flight, which suffered a rapid drop of around 17,000 feet in around two minutes, eventually made an emergency landing at Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk airport.
Two off-duty flydubai pilots, who were on the aircraft as pᴀssengers, carried out the landing in miraculous circumstances despite most of the aircraft’s rudder being ripped off the tail.
Captain Machchhar, who hails from Gujarat and was previously with SpiceJet, has been shifted to the UAE for treatment. He is presently stable.
Investigators from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel are still trying to find the motive behind the horrific attack that could have well resulted in one of the worst aviation disasters in recent history
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
Dolly Parton’s Sister Breaks Silence What Really Happened - GMT - G1
Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
