About 174 passengers, including 27 children, landed safely in Tabuk after Flydubai's Tel Aviv flight squawked hijack code 7500; officials blamed a pilots' fight.
Passengers on a plane from Dubai to Tel Aviv say they wrestled with a pilot who stabbed the other pilot as the plane dove sharply before making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, It was not clear what had motivated the attack. Aviation experts are marveling that the plane didn’t crash.
Flydubai FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted to Tabuk after a cockpit incident left both pilots hospitalized; the jet dropped from nearly 34,000 to under 17,000 feet in about a minute before landing safely.
By Alexander Cornwell and Rami Amichay JERUSALEM, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengers then held him down while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan…
By Alexander Cornwell, Rami Amichay and Lina Obeid JERUSALEM, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing the pilot, but passengerssubdued him while other pilots landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials said on Wednesd…
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia had arrested the pilot of a FlyDubai flight who stabbed...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia had arrested the pilot of a FlyDubai flight who stabbed...
A passenger on a rerouted flydubai flight that was bound for Tel Aviv said one of the pilots tried to crash the plane and kill everyone on board, after both pilots were found to be wounded on landing in Saudi Arabia.
A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew subdued the attacker and the plane eventually made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.
The flight traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed safely. But Israel believes there may have been an attempt to attack Israelis, and an investigation is ongoing, an Israeli official said earlier.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday a co-pilot aboard a diverted Flydubai flight has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed the other pilot and nearly caused the plane to crash.
The pilot who was stabbed by his “terrorist” co-pilot as he tried to take control of a flydubai flight bound for Israel has been identified as Indian national Smit Machchhar.
Investigations continue surrounding an early Wednesday fight between pilots during a flight to Israel that left at least one pilot stabbed and bloody. Just over two hours into an early-morning FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the aircraft experienced a steep dive of more than 14,000 feet in u…
By Alexander Cornwell and Lina Obeid JERUSALEM, Sept 30 - When flydubai flight FZ1073 suddenly plunged from over 30,000 feet on Wednesday, passenger Almog Italie said it felt like the plane was passing through "massive turbulence" before he realised a life-or-death struggle had unfolded in the cockp…
President Donald Trump said a pilot who stabbed a colleague in the cockpit of a FlyDubai flight en route to Israel was “perhaps a terrorist” and said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the incident.
