CHOKEHOLD IN THE COCKPIT: How Flight 1073 Was Saved

Flydubai Flight 1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv, 174 people on board. Israeli officials say the Omani co-pilot stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane, and it lost thousands of feet in seconds, per the Times of Israel, CNBC and Newsweek. The wounded captain, Smit Machchhar, unlocked the cockpit door before he collapsed. An Israeli passenger with an aviation background, Yaniv Hayun, ran in. His words: "When I walked in, I saw the attacker on the instruments between the two seats. There were no pilots in the seats." And then: "I grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold, and pulled him out." Three other passengers helped hold him. Two airline pilots who happened to be aboard flew the plane to an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, and everyone came home to Ben Gurion Wednesday evening, where Prime Minister Netanyahu saluted the heroes. One ordinary man decided he was not going to die sitting down. Chuck reads the story, as reported by Breitbart News off Ynet, the Times of Israel and Newsweek.

Also in today's episode: three economy items from the poo-poo platter, second-quarter growth revised up to 2.2 percent from 1.5 per the Commerce Department, ADP's 90,000 private jobs in September against 70,000 expected, and consumer spending up 0.9 percent in August with the savings rate down to 4.1 percent, per Breitbart's John Carney and CNBC; U.S. Central Command finishes moving American forces out of Erbil, ending Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq after twelve years, with the president posting "it was time for America to go home" and Adm. Brad Cooper saying ISIS "no longer poses a systemic threat to Iraq's national security," per CENTCOM, Fox News and The Hill; the Justice Department files a judicial misconduct complaint with the Eighth Circuit against Minnesota federal judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim over a 90-minute New York Times interview about the immigration operation in cases still before their court, calling it a flagrant violation of the code of judicial conduct, while Judge Schiltz says he acted within the ethical rules, per CBS News and Axios; Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, gets a Sixth Circuit stay an hour before her scheduled execution for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer (update since recording: the Supreme Court vacated the stay Wednesday evening, Tennessee began the execution, and after two rounds of the protocol witnesses said Pike was still breathing and the execution was halted after more than two hours, per the Tennessee Lookout and ABC News); a Spartanburg County, South Carolina mother is charged with two counts of attempted murder after deputies say she attacked her six-year-old and three-year-old with a knife, roughly 50 stab wounds between them, both expected to survive, per WSPA; Peter Schweizer asks who benefits when the biggest AI companies beg Washington to regulate them, and recalls the banks and Dodd-Frank; and Tom Cruise's $160 million climate-disaster drama Digger is tracking to open at $12 to $15 million, per TheWrap and Variety.

00:00 Welcome to 647

02:29 Poo Poo Platter 1

03:28 Poo Poo Platter 2

04:20 Poo Poo Platter 3

06:08 Troops Leave Iraq

07:44 Cockpit Attack Stopped

09:49 Judges Misconduct Complaint

11:40 Tennessee Death Row Delay

13:41 South Carolina Knife Attack

15:32 AI Regulation Power Grab

17:43 Tom Cruise Box Office Flop

19:08 Wrap Up and Thanks

20:03 Prayer and Blessing

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