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It's been over two weeks since a terrifying terrorist attack happened on the FlyDubai flight, where the situation was saved thanks to the combined efforts of the Israeli passengers team, and while there are many remarkable aspects of it worth discussion, I just want to single out one person's actions. It impressed me so much that for two weeks already I cannot stop thinking about it, pondering on how I can develop similar abilities, and whether yoga can help with it.
Here is a brief summary of what happened focused on the person that interests me, Yaniv Hayun. He was coming back from vacation, and this was his final connection flight (meaning he was tired and eager to get home). Suddenly the aircraft shook violently and started diving down. Some passengers were sleeping and didn't feel anything, some thought it was turbulence, one said he was listening to the music and didn't notice anything (God bless such unawareness). Then the cockpit door got open and the bloody pilot showed up together with terrorist co-pilot who was stubbing him. At that Yaniv rushed towards the cockpit, seized the attacker, pulled him out of the cockpit, then returned to the cockpit and saw that the aircraft was still in a dangerous attitude, with the controls unattended. Drawing on what he had learned from watching 'Mayday: Air Crash Investigation' (also known as Air Crash Investigation), he pulled back on the control yoke — the aircraft’s primary steering control — to raise the nose and help arrest the dive.
That's it. An Israeli plumber who owns a sewage-pumping company with no pilot training, saved the aircraft with about 200 passengers by taking the right decision, risk and responsibility within seconds. Think about it: one thing is to understand aircraft is going to hit the ground in a minute (it was so low that the mobile reception started working, and many passengers were texting their last 'goodbye' to their dear ones). Another thing is to stand up, run towards cockpit, seize the attacker and recover the plane's trajectory by pulling the right device to the proper position without any prior experience of ever doing it.
How many people could do that after watching some movie about air crash investigation? What degree of self-control and awareness, self-composure and confidence does a person need to have in order to do it?
If you think that everybody in his place would do the same, then let's remember about two spare (not on duty) pilots who were flying on the same flight as passengers and were supposed to take the plane back to Dubai. Not only they weren't the first ones to jump to the cockpit, when all this happened they were in a state of deep shock, and needed an explicit demand from passengers in order to proceed to the cockpit and take the aircraft control minutes after Yaniv recovered the plane from the deep dive. That's understandable, I don't blame them. 99.9% of population would be in a similar state of shock preventing them from taking any meaningful actions. But there is this 0.1% of Yaniv Hayuns who can keep cold mind and react momentarily.
How do I train myself to develop similar awareness, confidence, ability to quickly analyze the situation and to take an out of the box solution? I already feel yoga helping me to deal with stress management, helps me to hold my emotions and analyze the situation before allowing any reaction to come outside. What I still need to work on is the confidence and ability to take a quick decision whether my intervention is actually necessary and will be beneficial to people, which probably goes back to confidence and taking responsibility.
Here is a brief summary of what happened focused on the person that interests me, Yaniv Hayun. He was coming back from vacation, and this was his final connection flight (meaning he was tired and eager to get home). Suddenly the aircraft shook violently and started diving down. Some passengers were sleeping and didn't feel anything, some thought it was turbulence, one said he was listening to the music and didn't notice anything (God bless such unawareness). Then the cockpit door got open and the bloody pilot showed up together with terrorist co-pilot who was stubbing him. At that Yaniv rushed towards the cockpit, seized the attacker, pulled him out of the cockpit, then returned to the cockpit and saw that the aircraft was still in a dangerous attitude, with the controls unattended. Drawing on what he had learned from watching 'Mayday: Air Crash Investigation' (also known as Air Crash Investigation), he pulled back on the control yoke — the aircraft’s primary steering control — to raise the nose and help arrest the dive.
That's it. An Israeli plumber who owns a sewage-pumping company with no pilot training, saved the aircraft with about 200 passengers by taking the right decision, risk and responsibility within seconds. Think about it: one thing is to understand aircraft is going to hit the ground in a minute (it was so low that the mobile reception started working, and many passengers were texting their last 'goodbye' to their dear ones). Another thing is to stand up, run towards cockpit, seize the attacker and recover the plane's trajectory by pulling the right device to the proper position without any prior experience of ever doing it.
How many people could do that after watching some movie about air crash investigation? What degree of self-control and awareness, self-composure and confidence does a person need to have in order to do it?
If you think that everybody in his place would do the same, then let's remember about two spare (not on duty) pilots who were flying on the same flight as passengers and were supposed to take the plane back to Dubai. Not only they weren't the first ones to jump to the cockpit, when all this happened they were in a state of deep shock, and needed an explicit demand from passengers in order to proceed to the cockpit and take the aircraft control minutes after Yaniv recovered the plane from the deep dive. That's understandable, I don't blame them. 99.9% of population would be in a similar state of shock preventing them from taking any meaningful actions. But there is this 0.1% of Yaniv Hayuns who can keep cold mind and react momentarily.
How do I train myself to develop similar awareness, confidence, ability to quickly analyze the situation and to take an out of the box solution? I already feel yoga helping me to deal with stress management, helps me to hold my emotions and analyze the situation before allowing any reaction to come outside. What I still need to work on is the confidence and ability to take a quick decision whether my intervention is actually necessary and will be beneficial to people, which probably goes back to confidence and taking responsibility.
