A Plumber and a Dentist Walk into a Cockpit

Netflix may not want to buy the rights to the story of the near-disaster of the FlyDubai flight bound for Israel yesterday. It’s too unrealistic to believe. “A dentist and other passengers wrestled with a violent copilot. A plumber seized the controls as the plane plunged towards the desert. And the captain, despite being stabbed, managed to open the cockpit door — helping save all 182 people aboard the Israel-bound flight.” A plumber and a dentist are praised as heroes in FlyDubai near-disaster. The plumber had no experience flying, “but he remembered what he had seen in movies.”

+ Unprecedented: Extraordinary heroism and near-miraculous circumstances avert an airplane catastrophe.