{"id":242310,"date":"2026-10-02T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/i-was-fighting-for-my-life-flydubai-captain-recalls-cockpit-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:50:29","slug":"i-was-fighting-for-my-life-flydubai-captain-recalls-cockpit-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/i-was-fighting-for-my-life-flydubai-captain-recalls-cockpit-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was fighting for my life&#8217;: FlyDubai captain recalls cockpit attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still recovering in hospital, the pilot who helped prevent a tragedy on a FlyDubai flight has spoken publicly about the moment he fought to regain control of the cockpit. Capt. Smit Machchhar says he was \u201cfighting for his life\u201d but knew he had to get back up as the aircraft began its steep descent. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/02\/i-was-fighting-for-my-life-flydubai-captain-recalls-cockpit-attack\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still recovering in hospital, the pilot who helped prevent a tragedy on a FlyDubai flight has spoken publicly about the moment he fought to regain control of the cockpit. Capt. Smit Machchhar says he was \u201cfighting for his life\u201d but knew he had to get back up as the aircraft began its steep descent. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":242311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}