On Thursday this community prayed for Captain Smit Machchhar, the flydubai pilot who was stabbed in the cockpit of flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 people on board. On Friday he spoke for the first time, in a video call from his hospital bed in Abu Dhabi to India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. "I had suffered so many injuries that I had collapsed," he said. "At that time, I could feel that the aircraft was going down. I knew this was the last push. I was fighting for my life." He is recovering. In Mumbai a street artist has painted his portrait on a board by the roadside, under the words "Pray for speedy recovery". We give thanks that he is alive and awake, and we pray for the rest of his healing, for the crew member in hospital beside him, and for the doctors and nurses caring for them both.