{"id":632232,"date":"2026-09-30T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632232\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:38:20","slug":"flydubai-incident-pilot-tried-to-crash-israel-bound-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632232\/","title":{"rendered":"Flydubai incident: Pilot &#8216;Tried to Crash&#8217; Israel-Bound Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cDuring the flight, as they were approaching Israel, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot and, apparently, tried to crash the plane with its passengers on board,\u201d Netanyahu said in a <a class=\"rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cw980g1lem5pt?post=asset%3A8e974bdb-640e-4c64-a610-13ea46b0b20c#post\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video statement <\/a>released by his office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cI spoke with one of the Israeli passengers, he told me that the plane went into a spin and began to descend,\u201d Netanyahu continued. \u201cHe told me that, somehow, he managed to break into the cockpit with one of the crew members and, together, they overpowered the pilot who had carried out the stabbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Netanyahu praised the actions of those who intervened, calling them \u201cheroes\u201d who had \u201cdemonstrated extraordinary resourcefulness\u201d and \u201csaved many lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Flydubai issued a statement confirming the aircraft had been &#8220;successfully secured by on-duty Flydubai crew travelling on the flight\u201d and relaying that all passengers and crew are safe and accounted for.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">&#8220;At this early stage, the underlying reasons and motives behind this event are unknown and remain subject to a formal investigation,\u201d the airline added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDuring the flight, as they were approaching Israel, one of the pilots stabbed the other pilot and, apparently,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,31801],"class_list":["post-632232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-news-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}