Larm från passagerarplan på väg mot Israel. (2026-09-30)

Manes recalls that she was taking her young daughter to the bathroom on the flight when she heard strange noises coming from the cockpit. When she began to hear someone knocking on the cockpit door from the inside, which “sounded very, very unusual to me,” she alerted a flight attendant sitting nearby, she says.

“Something is happening in there,” she recalls telling the crew member. After she felt that the flight attendant wasn’t reacting, she says, “I screamed at him and touched his hand forcefully. I said, “Something is happening in there!’ He simply went to the door and opened it.”

The two relief pilots — one of whom is British — who assumed control of flydubai flight 1073 yesterday and landed it safely following an attack by the copilot were on the plane in order to fly it back to Dubai from Tel Aviv, Channel 12 reports.