Pilot Incident and Emergency Response

The pressure was immense, a force that pulled me down.

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

it was the pilot,

because, because there were two pilots inside

and outside, by chance, two pilots were sitting in the— in the— in the cabin.

I don't know what their pilots were doing there.

He and I pushed the door. The pilot who had been stabbed was just

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

my conclusion is that 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 do it.

He managed.

That was great resourcefulness.

When I went in, I saw the assailant

on the controls between the two seats. There were no, there were no pilots

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

One.

I grabbed the… the assailant and put him in a chokehold

and first of all pulled him outside.

What was he doing on those controls? What was he doing?

He was trying to destroy the controls to, to, to

disable the plane.

Is that what you saw?

Yes.

Okay.

We took him outside. It took seconds. The plane's nose was like this.

I called the Israelis with us on the plane.

I called them, they came over, two more guys approached me.

I told them we'd restrained him to the zir. I jumped back

to it and pulled the controls.

I started pulling the controls, and then—

You pulled the controls?

Yes.

You knew—back?

Back.

I see aviation under investigation, Mr. Prime Minister,

really. And the plane started leveling out a bit more, then

the pilot told me he was taking control from here, that he