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On September 30, 2026, a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv signaled multiple emergency alerts while flying over Jordan, leading it to divert to Tabuk Airport in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The Israeli Air Force scrambled fighter jets due to initial fears of a hijacking. However, Israeli officials later reported that the incident was caused by a fight between the pilots and not a security threat. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, held emergency consultations regarding the diversion. The plane landed safely with all passengers unharmed; it carried around 150 people, mostly Israelis.
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One passenger, Almog Itali, has told media that one of the off-duty pilots onboard who stabilised the plane was British.
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who → tell → plane
In a short translated clip on the BBC, Mr Itali said: “There were two pilots in the front, one stabbed the other, and there were two spare pilots who were supposed to operate the next flight.
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who → translate → flight
“The relief pilots are European, one of them British, who entered (the cockpit) and pulled the aircraft up, pulled the yoke, stabilised the plane and landed us in Saudi Arabia.”
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who → enter → Arabia
Around two and a half hours after leaving Dubai, the plane sent an emergency alert, according to publicly available flight tracking information.
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plane → leave → information
The flight then descended abruptly before making an erratic circle close to the Jordanian border and landing in Tabuk about an hour later, according to Flightradar24.
Video footage circulating on social media shows two men on the floor of the plane, with bloody wounds.
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Two people appear to be providing emergency medical treatment, while two others guard the cockpit.
A FlyDubai spokesperson has said: “An altercation occurred in the flight deck of flight FZ 1073, operating from Dubai International to Ben Gurion International Airport, on September 30.
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altercation → descend → September
“The aircraft was successfully secured by on-duty FlyDubai crew travelling on the flight, who diverted and landed the aircraft safely at Tabuk Airport.
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who → secure → Airport
All passengers and crew are safe and accounted for.
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passengers → account → ?
“We have deployed two replacement aircraft to Tabuk to relieve the passengers and crew.
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We → deploy → passengers
“This incident has no impact on other scheduled operations across the FlyDubai network.”
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incident → have → network
They added that at this stage the “underlying reasons and motives” for the attack are unknown, and are subject to a formal investigation.
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reasons → add → investigation
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