Pilot Incident and Emergency Response

The pressure was immense, a force pulling me down.

And there was someone else at the door in a white shirt, I assume

it was the pilot,

because, because there were two pilots inside.

And outside, two pilots happened to be seated in-- in-- in economy class.

I don't know what they were doing there. Their pilots.

He and I pushed the door. The stabbed pilot was extremely

close to the door, so it was hard for us to open it, but I think, in my opinion,

that's my conclusion.

Do you think he opened it?

He managed to open it.

How did he open it? He had to get up, right?

Before he collapsed.

Before he collapsed, he managed to.

He managed to.

Wow, that was great resourcefulness.

When I went in, I saw the attacker

on the instruments between the two seats. There weren't, there weren't any pilots

in the seats. One was down, one was on the instruments, and another came in with me.

Another one.

I grabbed the..., the attacker and put him in a chokehold

and first pulled him outside.

What was he doing on those instruments? What was he doing?

He was trying to destroy the instruments to...

That's what—

disable the plane.

That’s what you saw.

Yes.

Okay.

We got him out. It took seconds. The plane’s nose was like this.

I called the Israelis who were with us on the plane.

I called them, they came, two more guys pounced on him.

I told them we’d pinned him to the wall, then I jumped back

in there and pulled the controls.

I started pulling the controls, and then—

You pulled the controls?

Yes.

You knew—back?

Back.

You knew—

I see aviation in your future, Mr. Prime Minister.

Really. And the plane started to level out a little more, and then

the pilot told me he was taking control from there.