Flydubai FZ1073 cockpit attack: How a 6-year-old girl’s washroom trip triggered alarm

Tali Manes was taking her six-year-old daughter to the lavatory when she heard a struggle from the cockpit. What followed brought passengers rushing forward as the plane plunged thousands of feet.A six-year-old girl’s request to use the lavatory set in motion a chain of events that brought passengers rushing toward the cockpit of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 after Indian captain Smit Machchhar was stabbed by his co-pilot during the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight on Wednesday.