Co-pilot stood up to pray, then suddenly hit me on the head: Hero Indian pilot tells Netanyahu

Speaking on the incident, Indian hero pilot Smit Machchhar told Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu that the co-pilot stood up to pray. Smit said, "While he was praying...suddenly...there was...big blow to the back of my head. [I] thought there was catastrophic damage to aircraft...but after that...blows kept coming." Smit said he tried to stop the co-pilot, but his vision became blurred.