Captain Smit Machchhar: Modi and Trump hail ‘hero’ Indian pilot who opened cockpit door after being stabbed

What the coverage shows

Both outlets centre on Captain Smit Machchhar as a heroic pilot and on the cockpit stabbing itself, with both extracts saying he was stabbed while trying to protect the flight and avert disaster. The Independent’s headline adds that Modi and Trump hailed him, a framing not present in the New York Times. The New York Times alone foregrounds a question-style profile of who he is and says officials put the number of people on board at around 170.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.