Five passengers on a FlyDubai flight subdued an attacker in the cockpit.
Five passengers on a FlyDubai flight subdued an attacker in the cockpit.
OriginalSourceThe GuardianUnited KingdomLeanCenter-leftCredibilityPublished05:14 UTCRatings: AllSides, MBFCSourceThe GuardianUnited KingdomLeanCenter-leftCredibilityPublished05:14 UTCRatings: AllSides, MBFC
“Australian couple among passengers on diverted flydubai flight to Israel, embassy says”
Australian couple on flydubai flight diverted to Israel
Key points
- Two Australian citizens were aboard a flight from the UAE to Israel diverted to Saudi Arabia.
- The diversion followed an alleged stabbing of the co-pilot by another pilot, an Omani citizen.
- The plane dropped about 17,000 feet in two minutes during the alleged attack.
- Passenger Yaniv Hayoun described wrestling the attacker from the cockpit and securing the instruments.
- Israeli officials and the ambassador noted heightened security and linked the incident to regional tensions.
Other reports
- SourceThe New York TimesUnited StatesLeanCenter-leftCredibilityRatings: AllSides, MBFCRead at The New York TimesSourceThe New York TimesUnited StatesLeanCenter-leftCredibilityRatings: AllSides, MBFCRead at The New York Times
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How it got here
The Guardian publishes the article.
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Grouped with The New York Times’s report as story 7.
The Brief ranks it 7th.
7 7 Five passengers on a FlyDubai flight subdued an attacker in the cockpit.
Five passengers on a FlyDubai flight subdued an attacker in the cockpit.