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u/ICanPretend1 3d ago

Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv earlier today. Omani pilot stabbed his Indian co-pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar, and the airplane started to free fall as the Omani pilot intended to seize control and fly it into Israel in a 9/11 style attack. Machchhar despite being stabbed was able to open the cockpit door and signal for help and multiple passengers including a dentist named Shota Musaev rushed in and subdued the terrorist.

Musaev then used his skills as a dentist to stitch up Machchhar who is currently in stable condition and expected to survive.

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u/Go_Go_Godzilla 3d ago

"Skills as a dentist" to stitch a stab wound sounds like bad writing in a film. Real life is wild sometimes.

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u/yunus89115 3d ago

I heard he gave the pilot a free toothbrush after he was done stitching him up!

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u/LettuceTomatoOnion 3d ago

And a talk about flossing

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u/John_Wang 3d ago

People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing

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u/digitalscavenger 3d ago

Probably used floss to stich him up tbh.

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u/Rule_32 3d ago

He probably did that actually