Hero plumber who stopped co-pilot from crashing flydubai plane has special message for Trump
The heroic plumber who helped to stop the frenzied flydubai co-pilot from trying to crash an Israel-bound plane had a special message for his own hero, President Trump.
“Tell Trump that I love him,” Yaniv Hayoun asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they embraced in his office Thursday, with the hero pᴀssenger still in his blood-soaked clothes.
Hayoun was one of the pᴀssengers who stopped the Omani native co-pilot from crashing the flydubai jet bound for Tel Aviv on Wednesday by putting him in a headlock and dragging him out of the cockpit.
“An Israeli plumber, never flew a plane, was rarely in planes, very rarely flew,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office Wednesday.
“And he saw what was going on and he heard the screaming…he ripped this guy out of the seat, threw him back, the crowd got him, the pᴀssengers got him.”
An Israeli official has since claimed the co-pilot had mused about killing Jews online, fueling suspicion the staffer may have been fueled by antisemitism.
“His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology,” they told the Times of Israel.
✓ Ryan Mitchell
The heroic plumber who helped to stop the frenzied flydubai co-pilot from trying to crash an Israel-bound plane had a special message for his own hero, President…