In his first public comments since the Flydubai incident, Capt. Smit Machchhar tells Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi he “could sense that the aircraft was going down” as the plane plunged 14,000 feet in just 29 seconds, according to Flightradar24 data. ↧ ‘Couldn’t let all of them die’: Pilot attacked mid-air speaks... Capt. Smit Machchhar told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he had been badly injured during the attack.