The Heart-Stopping Command a Mother Gave Her Kids During a Hijacking

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A mother who was sitting with her four young daughters on the flydubai plane when it was hijacked by a suspected terrorist says she had only one thing to say to her kids: Pray for a miracle.

Lital Hirschl-Shahar, 39, said chaos broke out on Wednesday’s flydubai Flt. 1073 bound for Israel when someone near the front of the cabin started yelling that the pilot was under attack and that a large amount of blood was all over the cockpit.