Indian captain Smit Machchhar recounted his struggle to open the cockpit door and alert others during an attempted terror attack by his Omani copilot wielding an axe on a Flydubai flight. The pilot said he repeatedly thought to himself ‘you can’t die like this’ as he fought to escape and raise the alarm. The incident highlighted the vulnerability of pilots facing threats from crew members in the locked cockpit environment.

Sources: Times of Israel