在飞往特拉维夫的阿联酋航空公司（Flydubai）航班上，当机长史密斯·马奇哈尔（Smit Machchhar）带着刀伤从驾驶舱出来后，乘客们立即制服了企图发动袭击的副驾驶。这一英勇行为帮助飞机成功降落在沙特阿拉伯，并引发了更广泛的调查以及该航班的停飞措施。
Passengers on a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv overpowered an attacking co-pilot after Captain Smit Machchhar emerged from the cockpit with stab wounds. The intervention helped the plane land in Saudi Arabia and prompted a wider investigation and flight suspension.
六岁的妮娜当时正在飞往特拉维夫的航班上的洗手间内，突然从驾驶舱传来令人毛骨悚然的尖叫声，这一事件触发了一系列连锁反应，最终乘客们共同阻止了一场可能发生的灾难性空难。
Six-year-old Nina was in one of the toilets onboard the Dubai-Tel Aviv flydubai flight when bloodcurdling screams erupted from the cockpit, triggering a chain of events that would see passengers help avert what could have been a catastrophic midair disaster.
据乘客茨维卡·马内斯（Tzvika Manes）向《纽约时报》的描述：周三，他在飞往特拉维夫的航班前排座位上听到女儿的尖叫声，立刻从座位上跳起来去救她。女儿哭着说：“爸爸，我们不想死！”这句话成为他冲向驾驶舱的动机。
According to an account given by passenger Tzvika Manes to The New York Times, he was seated in the front row of the flight to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when he heard his daughter screaming. He immediately leapt from his seat to retrieve his daughter from the toilet. “Dad, we don’t want to die.”Those words became the trigger that sent him rushing towards the cockpit.
他看到驾驶舱内的情景一片混乱：驾驶舱门半开着，受伤严重的印度籍飞行员史密斯·马奇哈尔挣扎着走了出来，正在与阿曼籍副驾驶搏斗。驾驶舱内一片狼藉，到处都是血迹。马奇哈尔伤势极其严重，马内斯惊讶于他居然还能从驾驶舱中逃出来。
What he saw next was chaos. The cockpit door was partly open, and the bloodied Indian pilot, Smit Machchhar, suffering from stab wounds, had lurched out and was locked in a struggle with the Omani co-pilot, Manes told the newspaper. The cockpit was dishevelled and spattered with blood. Machchhar was so badly wounded that he was amazed the man had managed to get out of the cockpit.
“那位印度飞行员正在拼命挣扎，他设法打开门寻求帮助以自救，”马内斯告诉《纽约时报》。当时另一名副驾驶正压在他身上，继续对他进行攻击。马内斯与另外两名乘客阿萨夫·拉朱安（Asaf Rajuan）和亚尼夫·海云（Yaniv Hayun）一起冲进驾驶舱，与持械的副驾驶搏斗，并用飞机上的耳机线将其制服。与此同时，客舱内已经陷入了恐慌之中。
“The Indian pilot was struggling — he managed to open the door to get help to save himself,” Manes told the Times, recounting how the bleeding pilot fell out of the cockpit while the other pilot was on top of him, stabbing him. Manes, two other passengers, Asaf Rajuan and Yaniv Hayun then jumped into the fight. They grappled with the armed pilot and managed to restrain him, using cables from the flight’s headphone sets to tie him up, according to Manes' account. Inside the cabin, panic had already taken hold.
随着飞机迅速失去高度，乘客们惊恐尖叫，有人甚至“从座位上飞了出去”，马内斯说。他形容这段经历令人创伤，宛如“恐怖电影”。但斗争并未随着袭击者被制服而结束。据马内斯称，两名非值班飞行员随后接管飞机并将其降落。
As the aircraft rapidly lost altitude, passengers shrieked in terror, with some “flying out of their seats”, Manes said. He described the experience as traumatic and like a “horror movie." But the struggle did not end with the attacker being restrained. As per Manes, two off-duty pilots then took control of the aircraft and landed it.
飞机最终抵达沙特阿拉伯塔布克，乘客们下机，其中一些人身上仍穿着沾有血迹的衣服。
The plane eventually arrived in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, where passengers, some still wearing bloodstained clothes, disembarked.
他们等待一架替代的阿联酋航空航班继续前往特拉维夫的旅程，到周三晚上，所有乘客已安全抵达以色列。该航空公司随后表示，将暂停所有往返以色列的航班，以待调查。
They waited for a replacement Flydubai aircraft to continue their journey to Tel Aviv, and by Wednesday night, all passengers had arrived safely in Israel. The airline later said it was suspending all flights to and from Israel pending an investigation.
以色列总理内塔尼亚胡肯定了这位英雄机长的勇气，并表示：“尽管被刺伤且重伤，他仍奋起反抗，打开驾驶舱门，让乘客和机组人员制服了袭击者——避免了一场灾难性的空中事故。”马查尔机长目前在阿联酋住院治疗，恢复情况良好。他在塔布克一家医院入院一天后被转移。
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the hero captain's bravery and said, “Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic midair disaster." Captain Machchhar is currently hospitalised in the UAE and is recovering well. He was moved a day after being admitted to a hospital in Tabuk.