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A commercial flight traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday amid reports of a bloody onboard altercation.
Cluster2, which operates at several airports across Saudi Arabia, said both the captain and first officer of FlyDubai flight 1073 were injured in the incident and taken to a hospital.
Video from onboard the Boeing 737 appeared to show two people lying on the floor, visibly bloodied as others crowd around them.
The mother of a passenger on the FlyDubai flight told The Associated Press that her daughter heard screaming and somebody, whom she believed was a pilot, asking for help.
Yasmin Abukasis said the plane started to lose control, with one man taking out a knife and attempting to kill the pilot.
“There was a lot of blood around,” she said, according to her daughter’s account.
The Israeli military told NBC News that the country had scrambled at least two jets in response to the incident. They said the military had not yet ruled out the possibility that it was terrorism-related.
A spokesperson for FlyDubai told NBC News that Flight FZ 1073 had “experienced an incident while en route” from Dubai International Airport to Ben Gurion International Airport.
The aircraft landed safely at the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Airport, commonly known as Tabuk Airport, the spokesperson said.
The airline was working to secure a replacement aircraft, and investigators were looking into what happened onboard.
The FlyDubai flight initially triggered a 7700 “general emergency” signal, aviation tracking site FlightRadar24 reported. It then switched to a 7500 code, suggesting “unlawful interference,” before switching back to a 7700, the tracking site said.
It said “extreme fluctuations” were observed in the altitude data transmitted from the flight, which appeared to drop by 14,125 feet in just 29 seconds, according to FlightRadar24.
Israeli media, including The Times of Israel and Ynet cited unidentified security officials as saying that the alert had apparently been triggered over an altercation between the plane’s two pilots. NBC News was not immediately able to confirm those details.
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US and Israel both have failed attacks in election season, very strange.
Every time Netanyahu is losing an election, Israel is magically attacked and he has NO IDEA it was going to happen.
Oct 7 was Netanyahu. 9/11 was Netanyahu. And now this shit.
You know, if Trump wanted to pick one middle east country to carpet bomb the region into peace, he picked the wrong fucking one.
I don’t think there was any evidence this was intended to be an attack on Israel yet. If the pilot was able to crash the plane when he put it into the dive, it would have gone down into empty desert.
lol “there’s no evidence, pilots regularly stab each other.”
C’mon. This was Mossad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_aircraft
It happens enough that there’s a Wikipedia list. I doubt an Emirati pilot would be a Mossad suicide attacker.
I am not interested in your Mossad propaganda nor am I interested in pretending that Israel doesn’t do this every goddamn time.
Go sell your bullshit to someone else.
they say these ears have walls
9/11 was the Saudis, pretty clearly.
The Saudis made loud attempts to prevent the findings from the 9/11 commission report from being released. As far as I’m concerned, that’s admitting fault.
