00:02I want to have Captain Smith and Prime Minister Modi, our great friends.
00:08I really would like them to bear a celebratory flame.
00:12It's our highest honor that we give in our Independence Day.
00:17It's usually reserved for Israeli citizens, but I think here in this case, all the citizens
00:23of Israel will embrace you.
00:46But tell me, I wanted to ask you, how did it all begin?
00:49Can you tell me how it began?
00:52It was, it just was a normal flight and the co-pilot offered, I mean, he demanded, not
01:04demanded, but he wanted to pray, which a lot of locals, they do pray, and which is not out
01:12of the ordinary, but while he was praying, out of respect, I was just looking at the front
01:21and not at the back.
01:23And suddenly after, I think I would say about four, five minutes, there was a big blow to
01:31the back of my head.
01:32the back of my head.
01:33My first thought was there was a catastrophic damage to the aircraft and something is not
01:39right.
01:40After that, the blow kept coming, one after the other, and that's when I realized that it's
01:46not the aircraft, it's the other guy who was in the cockpit with me.
01:51I did try to stop him, but because of his initial blows, my vision was almost like nothing.
02:02And I was my, I was completely blurred out.
02:06At this point, I remember I was lying down on the cockpit floor and I felt the aircraft
02:15and the whooshing sound and people screaming, and as I was telling the ambassador here that
02:24I had that one last fight left in me that, you know, call it personal or call it for people,
02:31but let's say I did it that if I don't do it, I'm going to die.
02:35That's when I pushed against everything, I gave everything that I had and just went for
02:40the door and opened the door and thankfully people were waiting to pound back, took over
02:46the control and the rest is what you know, sir.
02:51Well, I, you know, I, frankly, I'm amazed at your courage, at your coolness of judgment
02:59under impossible conditions.
