{
  "id": 11116742,
  "title": "'A Whack Job Or Perhaps A Terrorist': US President Donald Trump Calls Indian Flydubai Pilot Smit Machchhar A 'Hero' After Mid-Air Cockpit Attack",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/a-whack-job-or-perhaps-a-terrorist-us-president-donald-trump-calls",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-01T04:34:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/a-whack-job-or-perhaps-a-terrorist-us-president-donald-trump-calls-indian-flydubai-pilot-smit-machchhar-a-hero-after-mid-air-cockpit-attack"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Washington: US President Donald Trump has called Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot of a Flydubai aircraft, a \"hero\", recounting how the badly wounded captain managed to open the cockpit door after being stabbed by the co-pilot during a dramatic mid-air incident on a flight bound for Israel. Trump said he spoke \"at length\" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the incident.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Middle East Eye",
        "title": "Trump calls Flydubai co-pilot 'terrorist' or 'whack-job'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/trump-calls-flydubai-co-pilot-terrorist-or-whack-job",
        "published": "2026-10-01T02:49:27.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}