In this episode of Editorial, HW News Managing Editor Sujit Nair breaks down the mid-air incident aboard FlyDubai Flight FZ 1073. Captain Smit Machchhar's heroics prevented a tragedy, but was this a lone Omani National pilot's outburst or part of a larger geopolitical strategy?
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[00:00:00] Smith just didn't save 150 lives he saved the world he saved the world is because Israel attacks Palestine Iran attacks Israel attacks Iran attacks UAE attacks this has to stop
[00:00:26] Namaskar welcome to another episode of HW News Editorial today let's talk about fly Dubai flight FZ 1073 let's talk about what exactly happened in flight 1073 but more than that I'm sure you know by now you must have kind of heard what happened and how and what was the incident all about but what I would want to stress on in today's HW News Editorial is
[00:00:54] Is this as simple as that as the way we see it is it is everything so simple was it just a frustrated man who wanted to crash the plane was it just that or is there a larger political geopolitical conspiracy in this behind this incident that's what we are going to talk about but first let's start with the actual incident though the story goes that at 3 05
[00:01:24] GMT Greenwich Meridian Time this flight takes off from Dubai this flight FZ 1073 takes off from Dubai and it's on its way to Tel Aviv Tel Aviv the capital of Israel 150 passengers out of which most of them were Israeli citizens children to almost 30 30 odd children in the flight so it's a packed flight we're going to Israel Tel Aviv
[00:01:53] when the flight reached 30 000 feet the co-pilot and Omani national wanted to crash the flight and he had a brawl with the Indian co-pilot Smith Machar Captain Smith Machar and this Omani co-pilot fought Omani co-pilot wanted to crash the flight Captain Smith was trying to hold on ensure that the people are safe and in the process this Omani co-pilot stabbed
[00:02:22] Captain Smith Captain Smith Captain Smith showed his bravery Captain Smith was a hero definitely as a hero he ensured that he somehow opened the cockpit door called out for passengers and the passengers came from the cabin and overpowered the Omani pilot the flight was saved the flight landed the flight was landed by two pilots who are luckily present the flight was
[00:02:52] two pilots came and landed the flight two pilots came and landed this flight an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia and all the 150 lives were safe including that of Captain Smith he's injured he's injured he's in the hospital he's being treated but he's safe a gallant effort by Captain Smith
[00:03:13] a gallant effort by Captain Smith you know this reminds me also of another Indian a lady called Neerja Bhanot I'm sure a lot of us will remember her she was a flight attendant for Pan Am and she fought the Palestinian terrorist saved children but she had to pay with her life for it similarly this brave young man this brave young man Captain Smith disregarded his own life and saved his passengers
[00:03:43] this is the story he was praised by Netanyahu the Prime Minister of Israel he was praised by Narendra Modi our own good Prime Minister so all of them also praised him a well deserved praise well deserved superb what a good
[00:04:03] what a brave story so we understood the issue now let's try and analyze this problem for starters let us understand the kind of calamity that was averted
[00:04:17] captain Smith just didn't save 150 lives some reports say there were 173 passengers but whatever Smith just didn't save 150 lives he saved the world he saved the world is because imagine if that flight would have crashed the war would have escalated the war would have escalated and God knows where and how much this would have been big
[00:04:44] imagine there was a 9-11 type incident like I mentioned before and like what Netanyahu said if there was a 9-11 type incident that happened in that happened in Tel Aviv imagine what would have happened imagine what could have been the repercussions imagine how many lives hundreds and thousands of lives would have been lost Captain Smith averted that and that's the big thing that one needs to remember number one number two
[00:05:13] is there is a theory there is a there is a conspiracy theory Bolo yeah there is a theory of false flagging people say that listen you know what Netanyahu according to Pew research latest Pew research June 2026 research Netanyahu is possibly one of the least popular leaders in the world and he is also dragged Israel with him Israel is one of the least popular countries in the world and
[00:05:43] for Nathan Yahoo this is very important why because in the next couple of months I think November he is supposed to stand for elections and according to a lot of people a lot of experts the chances are he may lose and if he loses this will have personal problems for him because there will be a lot of law and and cases that are going to catch up on catch up with him his life after prime ministership will not be that easy another interesting factor about Netanyahu Netanyahu had visited UAE
[00:06:13] just last week this visit was also confirmed by UAE he earlier on it was called as some secret visit but now even UAE confirmed that Nathan Yahoo was there for a short time but he was there does it say something does it therefore mean that you know all this is no no no nothing but this is also information which possibly could or could not be relevant to the larger picture so somewhere down the line for Nathan Yahoo not just about
[00:06:41] it's not just about being the prime minister or you know occupying the chair it is about to very major extent it's also about his survival so it will be very imperative for him to a remain popular b remain in the prime minister's chair and a war at this juncture if this war escalates with Iran at this juncture a Netanyahu will get relevance b his chair could probably be safe this
[00:07:09] is why people say or some people say that this is a this is a false flag and Netanyahu has done it possibly because he wanted to save his chair and this is a this is a act by the state of Israel or you know so on and so forth to be very honest with you I don't think that's what happened I do not buy that theory I do not buy that theory this theory is also compounded with the fact that Netanyahu visited UAE that too but all the same
[00:07:39] again I repeat I don't buy that theory I don't buy that theory for two reasons this sounds very far-fetched very far-fetched and secondly it may happen in some movies especially movies that you see recently it may happen in some movies but in real life for a country to take such a big risk and to work out such a strategy I think would be something that most of the country
[00:08:06] especially a country like Israel would avoid especially in this stage theory two is that there would be larger organizations behind that pilot that Omani pilot organizations like Kuti organization like Hamas now Hamas possibly yes because Hamas did this in October 7th so there could be a possibility that Hamas was trying that same stand again
[00:08:32] Hamas did in October 7th purely because Hamas wanted to stay relevant Hamas was losing its relevance and people say Hamas was losing even the funding to stay relevant and to get the same kind of funding that they used to they had to do that operations in October 7th that ensured that the war escalated that ensured that the war began in the first place chances are Hamas wants to do that again
[00:08:58] this could be another provocation by Hamas the third logic the third theory this also could be possible is that there was a frustrated man a frustrated man who went in his frustration who went in his anger against Israel against the Jews by trying to work trying to do a 9-11 by trying to kill those people
[00:09:25] or possibly God knows what his intentions were where we would have landed that where he would have plunged that plane into that's the third possibility I think the third possibility to my mind seems to be the most possible reason that is what I think this is purely conjuncturing let me be very clear first possibility is something that I believe would be a little far-fetched of you know conspiracy theory and all that
[00:09:53] not that I think Israel is not capable of all this but at this stage I don't think that is what exactly happened this is my opinion the last that I would like to tell you the last point I want to make is a lot of people say that listen you know what that Omani pilot his name is not mentioned media calls him Omani pilot there is no name no photograph everything about him is hidden no background no background story not no profiling
[00:10:21] the only thing we know is he's been working with fly Dubai for one year so why why are why is this name hidden now this let me tell you is a standard operating procedure so let's not make a theory out of it this is a standard operating procedure in international flights especially when there are some criminal acts they keep the name under wraps till such time the investigation is over it's a it's a standard operating procedure whether they do it for one day they do it for one month they do it for one year is depends on the investigative bodies
[00:10:50] but it is done it is normally done so there is nothing like I heard in some media there is no conspiracy theory here either this is what I wanted to mention to you and let's wait and watch to see where this investigation is headed to and of course Netanyahu just made a statement that this is some radical Islamist who has who has undertaken this attack and possibly he's done this to harm Jews
[00:11:20] and possibly he also claims that there could be foreign hands or there could be terror hands too that is helping this particular attack or this particular attacker this is what he just said my point is the world needs peace my point is Israel attacks Palestine Iran attacks Israel Israel attacks Iran Iran attacks UAE
[00:11:49] this has to stop this has to stop because end of the day like what Mahatma Gandhi said and I remember him today tomorrow is his birth anniversary like what Mahatma Gandhi said an eye for an eye will make the world blind and that's where this is headed to till I see you next time that's tomorrow at 10 Namaskar the world


