00:00Now, in that video earlier, I also spoke to Tina Goswami, Smith's former colleague. Listen in.
00:05When you heard these first words, the video that emerged, as a pilot listening to a fellow pilot,
00:13help us understand one, because I really want to, from you, try and understand the situation.
00:18You're also a popular, you're an Instagrammer, I understand, and you put out a video recently
00:23elaborating on the situation.
00:25Many would say, oh, this was easy, he wasn't really in a bad situation.
00:29How will you explain the kind of courage and presence of mind that Captain Smith Machar
00:35showed at that point within seconds?
00:38If I can tell you that, it's extremely courageous, because let me tell you the situation,
00:43whenever we have any emergency situation or any non-normal situation, normally it's a crew coordination.
00:49Like, whenever you have any emergency in flight, you have one pilot controlling the aircraft,
00:54another pilot is communicating with the agencies.
00:58Now, here comes that one pilot is trying to crash, one pilot is trying to, I can kill somebody,
01:04and this pilot, he's simultaneously doing, he's helping the aircraft also, he's trying to get up,
01:12look at his presence of mind.
01:14I mean, I almost got tears in my eyes that, imagine, he's put the squawk.
01:19So, we have this emergency code, where, you know, we have a squawk code, where you are identified
01:26on the ground, on AT air traffic control, that this aircraft is going from A to B.
01:32But when you put emergency code, which is 7-0-0, they identify that this aircraft has an emergency.
01:38Thereafter, he put 7-5-0-0, which is unlocal interference.
01:42So, that's the ground controller, they came to know, and look at the presence of mind.
01:47This is, in that situation, when he is getting attacked, when the aircraft is in a nose-dive
01:53situation, where you have almost the negative G-factor, where, you know, you cannot even
01:59control your body.
02:00At that time, his thinking that, first, I have to save myself, because unless you save
02:08yourself, you cannot save other people.
02:11And thereafter, so, it's a very confined and small place.
02:15Getting up from that place, opening the door, is very difficult.
02:20And it's an extremely difficult situation, when other pilot is trying to stop you and attack
02:26you simultaneously.
02:27So, it's a very difficult situation, and the way he did, it was, it's extraordinary.
