FlyDubai captain Smit Machchhar, stabbed in the cockpit, speaks to Imtiaz Tyab
The short interview from his hospital bed drew about 200,000 views in its first day, where a CBS Evening News short usually ends near 15,000.
CBS Evening NewsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 198,773 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (15,284).
FlyDubai captain stabbed mid-flight by "radicalized" co-pilot speaks out
The captain spoke next. Smit Machchhar was flying an Israel-bound FlyDubai plane when he was stabbed mid-flight, and in this short report he shares new details of the attack from his hospital bed. The title calls the co-pilot "radicalized"; correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports the story for CBS Evening News.
It follows the extended conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu about the same cockpit stabbing, which ran far past the channel's usual start, as we reported here. This time the person at the center of the story tells it himself.
The comment section moved about ten times faster than on a usual first day for one of the channel's shorts. Most of it is addressed to the captain: thanks for the lives aboard and wishes for his recovery. Many viewers also ask how the airline checks the pilots it hires.
The channel's other fast start of the weekend was a very different short: a tiny chihuahua joining Mexico's National Guard, which drew several times the usual first-day audience.
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- Channel
- CBS Evening News
- Subscribers
- 2,420,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 6,692,262
- Channel views, pace per day
- 524,639 (on a normal day: 1,182,248)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 207,017 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 79,311
The numbers
The figures below show a short that reached many times the audience a new CBS Evening News short usually gets on its first day.
