# Passenger credits TV show with helping prevent flydubai crash

https://mins.news/en/video/82190

- Reuters, 2026-10-01 16:13 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6E6QRA8yew

> A passenger says knowledge gained from watching an air-crash television show helped him stabilize a nose-diving aircraft and prevent the flydubai flight, carrying more than 170 people to Tel Aviv, from crashing.

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