Honoring Captain Smit Machchhar and the crew and passengers of Flydubai Flight 1073, and condemning the attempted terrorist attack on that flight.

This resolution of the House of Representatives honors Captain Smit Machchhar, a citizen of India, who fought off an attack by the first officer on Flydubai Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30, 2026, and unlocked the cockpit door so others could land the plane. It commends the off-duty pilots, cabin crew, and passengers who secured the flight deck and landed the aircraft in Saudi Arabia. It condemns the attack as an act of terrorism and an attack on international civil aviation safety. It calls on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to investigate and to keep the United States and Israel informed.

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