Pilot Incident and Emergency Response

You know, pressure, a kind of force pulling me down.

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

that was the pilot,

because there were two pilots inside,

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

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

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

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

my conclusion—

Do you think he opened it?

He managed to open it.

How does he open it? He has to get up there, 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 retard

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 person came in

with me.

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

and first pulled him outside.

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

He was trying to destroy the controls in order

to, to, to...

That's what—

to 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, and two more guys piled on top of me. I told them that…

We secured him to it. I jumped back into it and pulled the

controls.

I started pulling the controls, and then, uh…

You pulled the controls?

Yes.

You knew—back?

Back.

You knew—

I'm a flight instructor by training, that's another thing I teach.

And the plane started to level out a little more, then the pilot

told me he was taking control from there.