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  "id": 11102795,
  "title": "From textile engineering to cockpit hero: Indian pilot wins praise after flydubai drama",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/from-textile-engineering-to-cockpit-hero-indian-pilot-wins-praise",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-01T03:46:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
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    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/textile-engineering-cockpit-hero-indian-pilot-wins-praise-after-flydubai-drama"
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  "summary": "By Aftab Ahmed and Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Oct 1 (Reuters) - For Indian pilot Smit Machchhar, hailed as a hero for averting a crash of a flydubai jet bound for Israel, aviation was never part of his childhood dreams. Machchhar had his sights set on the family's textile business, until the aviation bug bit at the age of 19, which scared his mother. Now even after thousands of hours of flying,…",
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        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "From textile engineering to cockpit hero: Indian pilot wins praise after flydubai drama",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/from-textile-engineering-to-cockpit-hero-indian-pilot-wins-praise-11104476",
        "published": "2026-10-01T03:41:02.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "From textile engineering to cockpit hero: Indian pilot wins praise after flydubai drama",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/from-textile-engineering-to-cockpit-hero-indian-pilot-wins-praise-11107094",
        "published": "2026-10-01T04:07:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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