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  "id": 10979020,
  "title": "Flydubai flight diverted after pilot stabs colleague, attempts to crash plane",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/flydubai-flight-diverted-after-pilot-stabs-colleague-attempts-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T15:52:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/flydubai-flight-diverted-after-pilot-stabs-colleague-attempts-to-crash-plane/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported a \"highly severe security incident\" aboard a flydubai flight FZ1073 from the United Arab Emirates to Israel. According to the Israeli leader, a co-pilot stabbed a colleague before attempting to crash the plane. However, the passengers and another pilot managed to overpower the assailant, securing the aircraft's safe landing in Saudi Arabia.\n\nNetanyahu described the passengers as predominantly Israeli and quoted one of them as stating that they and a crew member broke into the cockpit after the plane \"entered a tailspin and began to dive.\" The passengers found the co-pilot \"trying to sabotage the plane's systems.\" In their actions, the passengers prevented a potential disaster, Netanyahu emphasized.\n\nWhile the plane transmitted emergency signals, the data indicated a rapid descent of nearly 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24. Israeli officials, speaking anonymously, assessed the incident as an attempted \"terror attack\" and not a hijacking or a mental health issue with the pilots. The co-pilot, identified as an Omani national, was arrested upon landing. All passengers were accounted for and safe, Netanyahu stated in a video message.",
  "summary": "The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv in Israel 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 Netanyahu said on Wednesday. Describing the event as “a highly severe security incident,” Netanyahu […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "NDTV",
        "title": "Passenger Claims Pilot Tried To Crash flydubai Plane En Route To Tel Aviv",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/passenger-claims-pilot-tried-to-crash-flydubai-plane-en-route-to-tel",
        "published": "2026-09-30T14:18:25.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "What to know about FlyDubai cockpit clash as pilot is arrested",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/what-to-know-about-flydubai-cockpit-clash-as-pilot-is-arrested",
        "published": "2026-09-30T15:04:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Flydubai pilot stabbed in cockpit is Indian, flew with SpiceJet for 11 years before joining Dubai airline",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/flydubai-pilot-stabbed-in-cockpit-is-indian-flew-with-spicejet-for-11",
        "published": "2026-09-30T15:30:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Ajel English",
        "title": "Israeli military: Security agencies not investigating Flydubai pilot themselves",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/israeli-military-security-agencies-not-investigating-flydubai-pilot",
        "published": "2026-09-30T16:00:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Pilot Attacked, Plane Plunges 17,400 Ft: How Passengers, Pilots & Crew Saved 180 Lives Aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/pilot-attacked-plane-plunges-17-400-ft-how-passengers-pilots-crew",
        "published": "2026-09-30T16:40:20.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Le Monde English",
        "title": "What we know about the attempted hijacking of a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/what-we-know-about-the-attempted-hijacking-of-a-flydubai-flight-to",
        "published": "2026-09-30T17:01:28.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al-Monitor",
        "title": "A pilot brawl, then a rapid descent: passengers recount chaos on flydubai flight",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/a-pilot-brawl-then-a-rapid-descent-passengers-recount-chaos-on",
        "published": "2026-09-30T17:46:35.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "A pilot brawl, then a rapid descent: passengers recount chaos on flydubai flight",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/a-pilot-brawl-then-a-rapid-descent-passengers-recount-chaos-on-11000303",
        "published": "2026-09-30T18:06:43.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}