Pilot knivhuggit en annan pilot i plan från Dubai till Israel (2026-09-30)

Saudi Arabia turned down a request by Israel to allow its planes to bring back Israeli passengers from a flydubai flight that made an emergency landing in the kingdom, two security sources say.
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The Israeli Air Force was preparing to send Super Hercules planes to pick up Israeli passengers, one of the sources says.

The passengers instead were ferried back to Israel on another flydubai flight that just landed.

A group of Israeli passengers managed to force their way into the cockpit, subdue the stabber and stabilize the plane, witnesses said. It was speculated that the captain, even as he was being attacked, may have opened the cockpit door.

Daniel, an Israeli passenger, said a pair of off-duty pilots who were on the plane took control of the flight after the assailant had been subdued. About an hour later, it landed in Saudi Arabia.

“The spinning stopped. It took some — I don’t know, it felt like an eternity, but I think it was two minutes, at least two or three minutes, during which the plane was simply diving and spinning like crazy,” Daniel recounted. “It felt like, that’s it. It’s over. September 11 is happening again.”
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Passenger Daniel said he “definitely” believed it was a terrorist attack. “I heard the screams during the struggle and saw the blood on the floor from the pilot, who was brought out.”

“Those three Israeli guys [who. he said, subdued the attacker] are real heroes. It’s hard to explain just how heroic they were,” he said.