Hero passenger reveals suspicious Fly Dubai crew behavior

More than a week after Israeli passengers prevented a catastrophe aboard a Fly Dubai flight, disturbing testimony has emerged about the flight crew's conduct during the hijack attempt. Asaf Rejwan, one of the passengers who rushed the cockpit and subdued the terrorist, described in a detailed interview on "Ulpan Shishi" the moments of terror he and his family endured and raised serious questions about the crew's actions.

Rejwan, who was traveling with his wife Lior and their daughters aged 12 and 13, described how he ran to the front of the aircraft the moment screams erupted. Alongside the viral footage showing him announcing "we won" to passengers immediately after landing, Rejwan revealed a series of highly suspicious incidents involving the flight attendants.

"I saw two very large men, extremely strong. Let's say it wasn't the ideal typecast for a flight attendant," Rejwan said. The tension escalated when those fighting the hijacker noticed suspicious behavior: "You pick up on a situation where you're with people who keep exchanging stressed looks, one looked at the other, making eye contact and starting to speak in their language. People don't know this, but the real battle was with them."

Rejwan explained that the attendants approached him in an accusatory tone, displaying clear displeasure that business-class passengers were attempting to document the incident. "He asked me: 'You are police, you are police', not as something good but as a kind of accusation," he recalled. He also testified to unreasonably free access to the cockpit: "They had the code, I saw them going in and out, opening it. I don't know if that's possible, I told security officials this needs to be investigated."

"What are you trying to shove into him?"

When a doctor on the flight was attempting to provide life-saving treatment to the severely wounded Indian pilot, one of the flight attendants tried to insert an unidentified pill into his mouth.

"When the Indian pilot was lying there bleeding and the doctor was helping him and resuscitating him, at some point one of the flight attendants came to give him some kind of pill. We said to him: 'What are you doing? What pill? The man isn't breathing, what are you trying to shove into him?' I have no idea what he was trying to give him," Rejwan recounted.

While the aircraft was in chaos and passengers were fighting for their lives, the attendants bizarrely demanded passengers fasten their seatbelts. "While we're dealing with them, they start telling passengers in the air: 'Put on seatbelts, put on seatbelts.' We said to him: 'We're going to die, there's a terrorist here, what are you talking about putting on seatbelts?'" Rejwan recalled.

After the Israelis succeeded in binding the attacker using zip ties and headphone cords, they suddenly noticed one of the flight attendants approaching the terrorist and beginning to gently release his restraints. "We suddenly realize he's starting to release the zip ties. Starting to gently loosen them. We said to him 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' We were literally going crazy, another second and we would have jumped on him," he described.

Rejwan admitted in the interview that in those moments the passenger were terrified of the crew members themselves: "I was afraid. One of my fears was that one of them would pull out a weapon, pull out a knife, pull out something." He added a chilling statement he heard from one of the attendants while the man held his hand and looked into his eyes: "He grabbed my hand, looked me in the eyes and said that the Indian pilot dies, we'll land safely. I went into a bit of shock."

Alongside the difficult descriptions of the airborne drama, Rejwan noted that the entire matter has been referred to Israeli security officials who are examining all findings and testimonies, including the puzzling disappearance of relief pilots who were on the flight and have not been seen since landing.