Bloody passenger pleads for help after travellers subdued hijackers on diverted flight
Bloody passenger pleads for help after travellers subdued hijackers on diverted flight
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Videos taken by passengers on the Flydubai flight show the bloody aftermath of what they said was the stabbing of their pilot — and a huge relief that the perpetrator was subdued and the plane brought back under control.
“Anyone who hears me we need help. We are landing in Tabuk in Saudi Arabia area, an unknown and unfamiliar area. Everyone on the plane is healthy and whole except for the pilot. We need help,” Ariel Oseran, one of the passengers said in a video message. He is seen in the video posted on X with blood smeared on his forehead.
The pilot and co-pilot were injured in the incident; Israeli sources suspect that the co-pilot stabbed the captain before trying to hijack the plane.
Another man said the pilot was “severely wounded” in the incident.
“We are on the flight from Dubai. We took over the flight here, an attacker with a knife stabbed one of the pilots, we just jumped and took him out of the cockpit a few guys, everything is okay now,” the man, who is not identified in the video shared on social media, says.
“There is a pilot here who is severely wounded apparently another pilot inside who is wounded but managing to land the plane. There are two crew members in the plane we made sure they close the door. I love you and everything is okay,” the man adds.
Another passenger, seemingly recording a message for his loved ones which was shared online by Israel’s Channel 14 said the attacker was tied up by the passengers.
“Everything is okay we landed, probably in Saudi Arabia. There is a pilot here who is severely wounded, they are evacuating him. I need to change my clothes everything is covered in blood.”