飞迪拜航空一名机长在副驾驶企图撞机时遭到袭击，他描述了自己如何用手臂格挡斧击头部并大声呼救，同时伸手去够开启驾驶舱门的旋钮。
The captain of a flydubai flight who was attacked by a co-pilot who intended to crash the plane has described blocking axe blows to the head and screaming for help as he reached for a knob to open the cockpit door.
机长斯米特·马赫查尔因在上个月从迪拜飞往特拉维夫的航班上发挥关键作用、避免灾难发生而被誉为英雄。他帮助挫败了副驾驶的企图自杀式袭击——该副驾驶原意将飞机撞向本古里安机场，这一点已得到阿联酋总检察长的确认。
Captain Smit Machchhar has been hailed as a hero for his role in averting disaster on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last month, helping to thwart what the UAE attorney general has said was an attempted suicide attack by the co-pilot who intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport. Speaking in an interview with The National newspaper from a hospital bed in Abu Dhabi, his head and left arm bandaged, Machchhar said that when the first blow landed, he thought something had gone "horribly wrong the aircraft structure", before quickly realising he was being attacked and things had "taken a drastic turn".
马赫查尔在阿布扎比一家医院的病床上接受《民族报》采访时说道，当时他的头部和左臂都包扎着。他说，当第一击落下时，他以为飞机结构出了“严重问题”，但很快意识到自己正遭到袭击，事情已经“急剧恶化”。
"The next thought was I need to get help in here," he said in the interview published on Saturday. "My immediate action was to free myself from the seat belts and I tried to just block the blows as much as I could," he said, pointing to his arm that was wounded as he defended himself.
“接下来的念头是，我需要在这里得到帮助，”他在周六发表的采访中说。
"The blows were coming on the head."
“我立刻的行动是挣脱安全带，我尽力尽可能多地格挡这些击打，”他说，并指向自己在自卫过程中受伤的手臂。“这些击打正朝着头部袭来。”
"Immediately my hand went to the knob which opens the door and screaming for my colleagues, screaming his name." "I believe that was the first time when I lost my consciousness."
“立刻，我的手伸向开启舱门的旋钮，我一边喊叫同事的名字，一边呼喊他的名字。”
The aircraft, flight FZ1073, was in Saudi airspace when the co-pilot attacked Machchhar with a crash axe, typically kept in the cockpit for emergency use.
“我相信那是我第一次失去知觉的时候。”事发时，飞迪拜航班FZ1073正飞越沙特阿拉伯领空，副驾驶驾驶舱内通常存放的应急斧击中了马赫查尔。
The incident caused the airliner to plunge 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) in 30 seconds before the attacker was overwhelmed and two other pilots who were on board landed the aircraft safely in Saudi Arabia. The suspect, an Omani national, was transferred to the UAE, flydubai's home country.
此事导致客机在30秒内急速下降16000英尺（约4900米），直到袭击者被制服，机上另外两名飞行员才成功将飞机安全降落在沙特阿拉伯。嫌疑人是一名阿曼国民，随后被移交至阿联酋——飞迪拜航空的总部所在地。
The plan was inspired by the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US, UAE public prosecutors say, as a result of their criminal investigation launched on October 1. Machchhar said he heard the cockpit door opening and screaming "between my colleague and the guy".
阿联酋公共检察官表示，此次袭击计划的灵感来源于2001年9月11日对美国的袭击，这一结论是基于他们自10月1日启动的刑事调查得出的。
He said the scariest thing he felt was the aircraft nose "steeply going down."
马赫查尔说，他听到驾驶舱门打开，以及“我和同事之间”和“男人”之间的尖叫声。他说他感到最害怕的是飞机机头“陡然俯冲”。“我当时不确定自己能否活着逃出去。我放弃了吗？没有。”
"I was not very sure that I'll make it out alive from this. Did I give up? No."