Trari › The Globe and Mail
Video taking off 96x its usual first day

Smit Machchhar, the stabbed flydubai captain, draws a crowd to The Globe and Mail

The short news report on the pilot hailed as a hero ran nearly a hundred times past the newspaper's usual first day, far ahead of its space launch and pipeline stories.

Channel: The Globe and MailStory of Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 408,188 views a day, 96 times a normal first day on this channel (4,241).

Flydubai pilot, attacked by co-pilot mid-flight, hailed as a heroFlydubai pilot, attacked by co-pilot mid-flight, hailed as a hero

Fourteen hours after it went up, The Globe and Mail's short report on the flydubai captain had passed 300,000 views. A new short from the newspaper usually ends its first day with a few thousand.

The video is about Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot at the center of the incident aboard a flydubai flight. According to the report, he was stabbed by his colleague in the cockpit during an attempt to crash the aircraft, and he helped keep the plane from disaster. The report gathers the reaction that followed. A former neighbour described him as an incredible person, and the leaders of Israel and India both called him a hero.

The comment section moved faster than usual too. By the fourteen-hour mark it held roughly eight times the comments a short here typically draws in a full day. Many commenters send the captain wishes for a full recovery. Others ask when investigators will release the flight data, and some argue over how the attack should be described.

The Globe posted several other stories the same day: Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk's launch toward the International Space Station, the federal fast-track for a West Coast pipeline, and an explainer on the alcohol dispute inside the Canada-U.S. trade war. Each drew a few thousand views. The pilot's story carried the channel's day.

Published on Trari

The facts
Subscribers
263,000
Channel views, pace per day
25,085 (on a normal day: 24,981)
Video published
October 1, 2026
Video views so far
306,532 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
408,188

The numbers

The figures below show how far this short ran ahead of the channel's usual first day, with the comments rising alongside the views.

the video's first day
usual first day here
4,241
this video
408,188
subscribers
263,000
total views
131,264,470
views per day
25,085
typical day: 24,981
the video
views
306,532
likes
396
comments
295
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Juno News
276,000
The Sydney Morning Herald…
268,000
The Globe and Mail
263,000
RTÉ News
252,000
RNZ
250,000
The Root
250,000
As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Developed with YouTube

Where next?

Also in News networks and broadcastersVideo taking off 10x its usual first dayPeter Hartcher's Trump–Xi question draws ten times the Herald's usual first dayThe international editor's look at what happened when the two leaders met at the White House passed 41,000 views in 23 hours, in a week the papers' channel oth…Channel: The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age · Story of October 2, 2026 A different discovery todayVideo surging 260,921 views per dayJessica Watkins' Crew-13 launch replay carries half of VideoFromSpace's dayThe full NASA broadcast from Cape Canaveral drew a quarter of a million views, and a docking clip followed with a time NASA's description calls a US record.Channel: VideoFromSpace · Story of October 2, 2026