Mom on hijacked flydubaiflight with four young daughters had one instruction for them: Ill never forget

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.“It all happened so fast, and the plane just started dropping down,” Hirschl-Shahar told The Post.

“It was so scary and crazy … We all thought we were going to die.“I was talking to God nonstop, believing prayer was the only thing that could save us.I told my daughters to pray, too.“We needed a miracle, and I couldn’t help but think, ‘Is this how you’re going to die? Is this how your girls are going to die?’ ” the mom said.Hirschl-Shahar said she was returning from a family vacation in Singapore and Thailand with her four girls — ages 14, 11, 7 and 5 — when co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami attempted to hijack the plane.Pilot Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed multiple times during the attack, fought off al-Hammami long enough to open the cockpit door, alerting everyone to the crisis taking place.“We heard a lady in business class shouting.

She sounded so terrified, in a way I’ll never forget,” Hirschl-Shahar recalled.Plumber Yaniv Hayun, who was seated behind the panicked mother and her daughters, was among the men to immediately spring to action to help the pilot and stop al-Hammami, who was allegedly attacking the control panel to take down the plane.

During the confrontation, the plane took a nose dive, dropping about 18,000 feet within the span of 12 minutes.But Hayun and his fellow passengers were able to quickly restrain the al-Hammami and provide first aid to Machchhar, with the plumber stabilizing the flight by using what he learned from the Canadian flight disaster documentary series, “Mayday.”Two o...