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The heroic plumber who helped to stop the frenzied flydubai co-pilot from trying to crash an Israel-bound plane had a special message for his own hero, President Trump.

“Tell Trump that I love him,” Yaniv Hayoun asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they embraced in his office Thursday, with the hero passenger still in his blood-soaked clothes.

Hayoun was one of the passengers who stopped the Omani native co-pilot from crashing the flydubai jet bound for Tel Aviv on Wednesday by putting him in a headlock and dragging him out of the cockpit.

Yaniv Hayoun, one of the passengers who helped subdue the hijacking suspect on Wednesday’s flydubai flight, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport. Kobi Gideon / GPO

Trump’s message of love toTrump came after the US president hailed him as a hero.

“An Israeli plumber, never flew a plane, was rarely in planes, very rarely flew,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office Wednesday. 

“And he saw what was going on and he heard the screaming…he ripped this guy out of the seat, threw him back, the crowd got him, the passengers got him.”

Hayoun reportedly helped storm the cockpit to stop the co-pilot’s alleged terror plot.e2w e2w


An investigation into the co-pilot’s motive is ongoing, with authorities probing any potential connection to terrorism.

An Israeli official has since claimed the co-pilot had mused about killing Jews online, fueling suspicion the staffer may have been fueled by antisemitism.

“His social media accounts [say] clearly that he has been radicalized into jihadist ideology,” they told the Times of Israel.

Hayoun showing the Israeli PM how he is still covered in blood from the attempted terror attack. Kobi Gideon / GPO
Hayoun reportedly helped storm the cockpit to stop the co-pilot’s alleged terror plot. e2w
“When I went in, I saw the terrorist on the control,” Hayoun told Netanyahu. “I grabbed the terrorist, put him in a hold, and pulled him outside.”  ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE/AFP via Getty Images

Netanyahu claimed the staffer “underwent Islamist radical indoctrination before carrying out the cockpit attack

“It looks very likely that he was going to down the plane,” he told “Fox and Friends.”

“The Islamist tendencies, that radicalization [that was] found in his background, I think that’s … a pretty good clue.” he said.

It remains unclear how the staffer worked the flight, which was eventually landed by two off-duty pilots in Saudi Arabia, since Oman doesn’t have any diplomatic relations with the Jewish State.

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