Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar, who sustained serious injuries while foiling an alleged attempt by his co-pilot to crash a flydubai flight, is in good health and recovering well, the Indian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Thursday.

Machchhar was stabbed and seriously injured by his co-pilot in the cockpit of flydubai flight FZ1073, which was travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The aircraft, carrying 174 people, was forced to make an emergency landing in Tabuk in northwest Saudi Arabia.