{
  "id": 15279575,
  "title": "Flydubai captain recalls struggle to open cockpit door during attempted terror attack",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/flydubai-captain-recalls-struggle-to-open-cockpit-door-during",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-17T20:34:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Times of Israel",
    "slug": "the-times-of-israel",
    "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/flydubai-captain-recalls-struggle-to-open-cockpit-door-during-attempted-terror-attack/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Indian pilot Smit Machchhar says he kept thinking to himself, 'you can't die like this,' as he struggled to alert others that he was being attacked with an axe by his Omani copilot",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The National UAE",
        "title": "'Blows kept coming, I felt the aircraft going down': Flydubai captain on the cockpit battle to save his plane",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/blows-kept-coming-i-felt-the-aircraft-going-down-flydubai-captain-on",
        "published": "2026-10-17T17:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Arutz Sheva - Israel National News",
        "title": "'The plane was diving': Flydubai pilot recounts cockpit attack",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/the-plane-was-diving-flydubai-pilot-recounts-cockpit-attack",
        "published": "2026-10-17T17:42:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "‘That was when the battle for survival began’: flydubai captain recounts cockpit attack",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/that-was-when-the-battle-for-survival-began-flydubai-captain-recounts",
        "published": "2026-10-17T18:17:43.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}