Near-disaster: eyewitness to flight drama: "There was no one in the cockpit"
The minutes after the act of violence are dramatic: an empty cockpit, a seriously injured pilot, improvised restraints, and shocked fellow pilots among the passengers. An eyewitness reports.
An incident occurred on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday, where the copilot reportedly attacked his colleague. The pilot, despite being severely injured, managed to open the cockpit door and passengers overpowered the attacker. An eyewitness, Israeli businessman Tal, told the Jerusalem Post that he helped bring two pilots into the cockpit, who then landed the plane in Saudi Arabia.
Tal said he had to shake the pilots to get them to take control of the aircraft, which was in a steep descent. The Israeli government is treating the incident as a jihadist terrorist attack.
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