FlyDubai captain Smit Machchhar, stabbed in the cockpit, speaks to Imtiaz Tyab

The short interview from his hospital bed drew about 200,000 views in its first day, where a CBS Evening News short usually ends near 15,000.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 198,773 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (15,284).

FlyDubai captain stabbed mid-flight by "radicalized" co-pilot speaks out

The captain spoke next. Smit Machchhar was flying an Israel-bound FlyDubai plane when he was stabbed mid-flight, and in this short report he shares new details of the attack from his hospital bed. The title calls the co-pilot "radicalized"; correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports the story for CBS Evening News.

It follows the extended conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu about the same cockpit stabbing, which ran far past the channel's usual start, as we reported here. This time the person at the center of the story tells it himself.

The comment section moved about ten times faster than on a usual first day for one of the channel's shorts. Most of it is addressed to the captain: thanks for the lives aboard and wishes for his recovery. Many viewers also ask how the airline checks the pilots it hires.

The channel's other fast start of the weekend was a very different short: a tiny chihuahua joining Mexico's National Guard, which drew several times the usual first-day audience.

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The numbers

The figures below show a short that reached many times the audience a new CBS Evening News short usually gets on its first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

15,284

this video

198,773

subscribers

2,420,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

2,114,029,948

views per day

524,639

typical day: 1,182,248

the video

views

207,017

likes

1,213

comments

268

days online

2

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

euronews

2,580,000

New York Post

2,580,000

ABC News In-depth

2,450,000

CBS Evening News

2,420,000

CTV News

2,410,000

MIRROR NOW

2,350,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.