Indian pilot Smit Machchhar is being hailed a hero after his co-pilot allegedly stabbed him mid-air in a bid to crash a flydubai flight carrying 174 people. The injured pilot managed to open the cockpit door, after which passengers overpowered the co-pilot ▻ ↧ From textile engineering to cockpit hero: Indian pilot wins praise ... For Indian ​pilot Smit Machchhar, aviation was never ‌part of his childhood dreams.