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Daniel Schlichter

Passenger aboard Flydubai Flight 1073 who recounted and helped respond to the October 2026 cockpit stabbing attempt on the Dubai–Tel Aviv flight; appeared as a guest on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.

Oct 13, 2026

5:21
Yeah.
5:21
And, and it was-- it took me a few seconds to understand what is happening.
5:25
And, and then immediately after that, uh, the first Israeli guy, uh, Yaniv, uh, arrived.
5:32
He was sitting, uh, on the eighth or ninth, uh, row, I think.
5:37
And he jumped, uh...
5:38
Really, the plane was already going down.
5:40
He jumped, and he, he went inside the cockpit.
9:09
What's going through your mind during those moments?
57:14
How, how are you doing in the aftermath?
57:18
First of all, let me just say one sentence before I start.
57:20
Uh, uh, I overheard the, the panel and, uh, uh, I was, uh, overwhelmed by the rubbish, uh, spoken about, uh, Israel and the IDF by the non, uh, Israeli two gentlemens.
57:32
And, uh, I think, uh, IDF is the most human, uh, army in the world, and I wish all the armies would be so human as them.
57:41
So thank you, uh, Piers.
57:42
I'm, I'm glad to be here.
57:43
So I was sitting on the second, uh, row of the airplane, and I was involved in all the action that was going on.
61:11
Mm
19:47
That was already open.
19:48
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
19:50
Even though he was stabbed, he managed somehow to open a little bit the door and started to try to push the terrorist out of the cockpit area.
20:02
Whenever the first Israeli guy came in, he helped him to push him out of the cockpit area.
20:10
and they managed to uh push the pilot as well out to the exit left side of the this area i was trying to think quickly what what i can do so i i took three or four sets of earphones so they can tie up the terrorist legs and hands before they find maybe something better to to how to tie him and the plane at that stage was going rapidly was going down, and there were a lot of children behind me, so I could hear the screaming of the children.
20:46
The mothers were trying to calm them.
20:49
There were things flying from one side to the other, and the plane was really with the nose down going, Very, very fast.
22:12
How do you feel now?

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