There is reporting about the two pilot/passengers that although one is a British citizen, one is from Russia and one is from Ukraine.
Christ, don’t let them fly anything else together or we’ll just get round two…
Trivia……the plot of Airplane, as well as much of the non-comedic dialogue…..was lifted from an early Arthur Hailey novel, Runway Zero-Eight, which was later republished as Flight Into Danger.
Not quite, they lifted it from the movie Zero Hour! (1957) which was based on the book in question I guess. They even bought the rights to the movie.
Apparently, Scotty (James Doohan) was the original Stryker.
From Wikipedia:
Zero Hour! was an adaptation of Hailey’s original 1956 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation teleplay Flight into Danger, starring James Doohan as George Spencer, the original name for the Stryker character.[4] Hailey also co-wrote a novel with John Castle based on the same plot titled Flight Into Danger: Runway Zero-Eight (1958), although this is based more closely on the television version than on the film.
Famously, Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker bought the rights to Zero Hour! for $2500.
Thanks for the clarifications….i mostly remember seeing the movie and recognizing the story and dialogue from the Hailey novel.
It has been mentioned on this board probably over a hundred times and also I saw an interview about it on TCM who did a double feature of Zero Hour! & Airplane!
LOL!
ROTFL!!
One of the things I love about this board is the delightfully twisted senses of humor.
What was this guy’s end game? Once he arrived in Israel per his plan, wouldn’t he just be in prison for an ultra long time?
Edit: Nvm, I may have mis-read things.
One plane to take the passengers to Israel and one to take the crew back to Dubai. I haven’t found a good cite for this yet.
The crew heading to Israel had to be vetted by Israel before flying. This gives a backup if Israel rejects any of the crew.
A Bad day at the office for the Indian pilot.
He had to fight for his life and the passengers lives.
Crashing into either the ground or a building?
Absolute hero. He should get a medal.
I know this is NOT what you meant, but there’s a bunch of people on Twitter muttering darkly about an inside job, as in a plot masterminded by the Israelis, i.e. Mossad.
You see, they find it unbelievable that pilots were on board as passengers and that another passenger would be capable of rendering first aid.
There are so many candidates for the Alex Jones False Flag Award this year.
Yes, Smit Machchhar is worth applauding. I’m sharing his name with my nephews and humbly making an effort to spell his name correctly.
On the one hand, you can’t have security so tight that it keeps the co-pilot out of the cockpit or away from the controls.
On the other hand, though, they could perhaps have caught that the co-pilot had a knife.
Maybe someone should take up a collection to get them some fresh tinfoil?
Just to clarify for everyone …
@Mark_Finn had asked if this could have happened on El Al. And he asserted El Al has “tons of security.”
My point was only that the attack came from somebody who worked for flyDubai. And was therefore an insider from the POV of flyDubai. Therefore “tons of security” that was aimed at preventing passengers or other intruders from interfering w the flight crew would have been of no use, since that wasn’t where the threat came from.
That was my only point.
As you say, the botnets of the usual suspects are fomenting anger and confusion everywhere. The idea this was an Israeli false flag is so obviously attractive to the anti-Israel specifically and antiSemite generically brigades that of course they are pushing that line of psyops attack on the entire West.
Not me though.
Morons. Which I know you know.
There’s nearly always a pilot or two riding in the back. Sometimes from our carrier, sometimes from somebody else. There’s also nearly always a doctor, an RN, or an EMT / paramedic type on board. Those occupations are just that common. At least in the USA. Also typically some military veterans aboard. Many of whom have at least some first aid training and experience beyond “put a bandaid on it”. Maybe they’re old, but they’re still back there.
The simple statistics of 150 people mostly selected from the ranks of folks with enough free cashflow to afford airfare assures there’ll be some of those.
Obviously you have orders of magnitude more experience but I used to travel extensively internationally and within the US. I was on more than a few flights where they asked over the speakers if there was a medical professional on board and there were always several.
Same. Doctors are really common among “people with the spare cash to fly regularly”. I’d be shocked if there are many large flights that don’t have several doctors among the passengers.
And i often notice extra pilots. The nature of the industry requires pilots to be flown around a lot, and so pilots are highly overrepresented among “passengers”.
Plus, they like to take vacations and visit family and so on, just like the rest of us, and being able to tag along on flights is one of their job perks.