This latest Middle East hijacking incident involved an Israeli passenger, Yaniv Hayun, whose occupation is a plumber. He told the Israeli prime minister that he and others pushed open the cockpit door and found the stabbed captain slumped by the doorway, as the plane was already falling. After they subdued the hijacker(s), they themselves sat in the pilot’s seat and tried to pull the control column upward to save the aircraft. The reason was that he had watched the documentary Air Crash Investigations.

This latest Middle East hijacking incident involved an Israeli passenger, Yaniv Hayun, whose occupation is a plumber. He told the Israeli prime minister that he and others pushed open the cockpit door and found the stabbed captain slumped by the doorway, as the plane was already falling.

After they subdued the hijacker(s), they themselves sat in the pilot’s seat and tried to pull the control column upward to save the aircraft. The reason was that he had watched the documentary Air Crash Investigations.