00:00An Israeli passenger is being praised for helping a VAT disaster aboard a Fly Dubai flight
00:05after a cockpit attack sent the plane into a steep descent.
00:10President Benjamin Netanyahu said he had met the Israeli passenger whom he described as acting with extraordinary courage.
00:18And an Israeli passenger, a civilian, I met this guy, he's an incredible hero.
00:24Look at what he did under impossible circumstances.
00:27I spoke earlier today with President Trump who really was appreciative of this.
00:31And he said, you know, when a plane is nosediving, the passengers, including 30 children, are already saying their prayers.
00:37They know they're gone from this world.
00:39And this young man just acts with incredible, incredible heroism and saves the day along with the Indian pilot who
00:50was there and the others who came to help.
00:52The flight, carrying 174 passengers, including about 30 children, was diverted to Saudi Arabia after an attack in the cockpit
01:02left one pilot seriously wounded and the aircraft in a steep descent.
01:08Passengers and crew intervened before the plane was brought under control.
01:13All passengers survived, according to reports, the circumstances and motive behind the cockpit attack remain under investigation.
