Captain Behnam, the one who saved the lives of 381 passengers

When I heard that 381 lives are on the back, the people whose lives are in our hands, it gave me a very strange feeling, which means that I have to deal with this now, and I felt that I must save this plane no matter what. I have reached the destination. I made a decision that day and that was that today is not the day we die. I think that one decision changed my life, because I didn’t lose myself. Being in aviation for 40 years, teaching, doing acrobatics and meditating – I have a third degree black belt in karate and a hobby I have is stacking rocks and balancing – all of these teach me balance. I always tell children and young people that everything in the world has balance, even a stone that has no life has balance. When a twin-engine airplane engine is disabled, we say it is a dead engine. The left engine, which was working with a lot of power, turned the plane to the right, the side where the engine was not. The plane was hovering at an altitude of 36,000 feet, that is, about 5 or 6 miles or about 12,000 meters above the ground. I checked the plane’s rudder and saw that the plane was not returning to the straight path.