Pilot was stabbed on flight diverted to Saudi Arabia

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FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv clearly dips massively in altitude from 30,000 to 15,000 feet

 

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Israel: Flydubai pilot tried to hijack Tel Aviv flight, all passengers safe | The Jerusalem Post

Israeli official says “major disaster avoided” after pilot stabbed his co-pilot, attempted to hijack aircraft with over 100 Israeli passengers • Israelis on board helped subdue would-be hijacker

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the flight destination was tel aviv, 100 israeli people on board, but it landed in ksa, although situation was under control in the landing.

israel has the policy of dont allow flights who emit hijack emergency code even when situation is controlled later.

so like in iran war, ksa swallowed problems related to israel.

 

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old tweet, it was hijack and crash attempt by one pilot.

 

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Pilot screamed for help as plane started to 'lose control'
BBC​

We can now bring you more from Yasmin Abukasis, who has been speaking to journalists from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, where the plane was due to land.

Yasmin says her daughter, who was on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, phoned her to say she heard screaming on the plane as a pilot called for help.

"The plane start to lose control. So all the people, they scream, they think they are going," Yasmin tells AP news agency.

Speaking to Reuters, Yasmin says two other pilots took control of the plane as other passengers ran towards a man who had a knife.

Media caption,
Mother of passenger on Flydubai flight describes incident

 

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Plane plummeted by 17,000ft in two minutes, data shows

By Paul Brown​

BBC

The flight bound for Tel Aviv dropped extremely rapidly over Saudi Arabia just over two hours after take-off from Dubai, flight-tracking data from Flightradar24 examined by BBC Verify shows.

Just before 05:21 UTC (06:21 BST; 08:21 local time) the plane was cruising at a recorded altitude of 34,000 feet (10,400m).

In less than two minutes it had descended more than 17,000 feet (5,200m).

An emergency signal was issued from the plane about 10 minutes later and the available data shows significant ongoing fluctuations in altitude throughout the rest of the flight to Tabuk airport in Saudi Arabia.

 

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'Major disaster averted', officials reportedly tell Israeli media​

BBC

More now from Israeli media, who have been speaking to unnamed Israeli officials.

"A very serious disaster was averted," one of those officials tells Channel 12.

The Jerusalem Post also cites an unnamed Israeli official as saying a "major disaster was narrowly avoided".

 

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Captain and first officer injured, says Saudi airport
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BBC

The company that owns Tabuk airport in Saudi Arabia - where the plane was diverted - has just put out a statement.

It says both the captain and first officer on the Flydubai plane sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital. It does not state the cause of the injuries.

The airport's air traffic control centre received a distress call from the Flydubai plane at 08:44 local time, the statement says, during which the plane requested an emergency landing

The aircaft landed safely around an hour after, the statement adds.

 

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This is interesting, according to one eye witness...

Two pilots who were at the back of the plane came forward to help land it, one passenger says: "I shouted at them to run and take control of the plane"

I know that El Al flights have undercover security and maybe pilots, and it looks like this might apply to this flight as well.