'I Wasn't Sure I Would Make It Out Alive': Flydubai Captain Recounts Terrifying Axe Attack

The first time when I was hit, my thought was something's gone horribly wrong with the aircraft structure and which has fallen on my head and I went on that track. But soon after that, when it kept on coming and I did get a glance to answer your question, that is when I realized that things are not normal. Things have taken a drastic turn. the next thought was I need to get help in here otherwise things are going to go bad and I don't want to say specifics about the the cockpit in in details but my immediate action was to free myself from the the seat belt and I tried to just block the blows as much as I could and that's when this happened because I just went to because the blows were coming on the head so I just turned around and tried to block it and then that's when i got hurt here immediately my hand went to the knob which opens the seat the door and screaming for my colleagues screaming his name and in the in the entire excitement and an entire hyped up situation i believe that was the first time when i lost my consciousness and since i was in the in the motion of turning around and getting up i fell like i won't say on my face but i fell face down in the cockpit i did i did hear the cockpit door opening and there was some screaming conversation happened between my colleague and the the guy immediately after that was the scariest thing that i heard and felt was the engines spooling down when i say spooling down is the engine sound going from full blast to like which is not what you want at that stage in the flight and the second thing was i felt the aircraft nose steeply going down to be honest uh i was not very sure that i'll make it out alive from this did i give up no i i can 100 percent tell you i did not give up did i have any control over it well the amount of control that i had i i did my best to do what i did and the others which when it came on their hand, did what they were supposed to do and saved the day.