PM Modi Speaks to Flydubai Hero Captain Smit Machchhar: 'I Recited Hanuman Chalisa'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on a video call on Friday with Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot aboard flydubai flight FZ1073. Modi praised his courage and presence of mind; an emotional Machchhar said he kept reciting the Hanuman Chalisa while fighting off the attacker.