This is the moment a passenger covered in blood filmed a plea for help from Wednesday's 'hijacked' flight from Dubai to Israel, moments after helping overpower a knifeman.
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This morning's incident saw the pilot of the FlyDubai jet allegedly attack his co-pilot and try to hijack the flight with the intention of crashing it, according to an Israeli official.
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pilot → see → official
A 'major disaster was narrowly avoided', the official told the Jerusalem Post, describing how passengers onboard the flight managed to subdue the pilot and bring him under control.
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passengers → avoid → control
The hero who helped subdue the knifeman is seen in footage with blood dripping down his face, emerging from a gash that stretches from his forehead down to his nose.
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that → help → nose
'We’re here during the hijacking of an airplane.
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We → ’re → airplane
At this point we’ve subdued the terrorists, we’re approaching landing.
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we → subdue → landing
Whoever is hearing me, we need help,' he tells the camera
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he → hear → camera
We’re landing in Tabuk, apparently in Saudi Arabia.
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We need help,' he adds.
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he → need → help
Images from the cabin shared online appear to show another passenger with a white shirt covered in blood.
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Images → share → blood
Other graphic footage shows the wounded pilot lying on the floor covered in blood as passengers administer oxygen to him.
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passengers → show → him
The hero who helped subdue the knifeman is seen in footage with blood dripping down his face, emerging from a gash that stretches from his forehead down to his nose
Graphic footage shows the wounded pilot lying on the floor covered in blood as passengers administer oxygen to him
A second crewmember is seen tied up beside him, seemingly unconscious and covered in blood
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crewmember → help → blood
A second crewmember is seen tied up beside him, seemingly unconscious and covered in blood.
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crewmember → see → blood
Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted over Jordanian airspace towards Saudi Arabia, transmitting a general emergency signal and then another emergency signal.
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FZ1073 → divert → signal
The incident raised concerns about a possible hijacking and prompted Israel to scramble warplanes.
The aircraft's data appeared to show that it had suddenly and rapidly descended by nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds before the first emergency signal, Flightradar24 said.
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Passengers on the plane told Israel's Channel 12 that they heard shouts from passengers toward the front of the jet who heard the altercation between the pilots, and the aircraft dipped steeply before landing in Saudi Arabia.
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aircraft → tell → Arabia
The growing consensus among the Israeli security establishment, including the IDF, Mossad, and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), is that the incident was intended as an act of terror.
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incident → grow → terror
There was a second team of pilots in civilian clothes on the plane who allegedly prevented one of the pilots from taking over and crashing the jet.
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who → be → jet
A man travelling on Wednesday's 'hijacked' flight described the moment the Israeli passengers overpowered the knifeman.
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passengers → travel → knifeman
Passenger Itzhak Liber recorded a video addressed to his family before uploading it onto Facebook.
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Liber → record → Facebook
'We took control of the situation here on the flight,' he said in the clip, 'There was an attacker with a knife who stabbed one of the pilots.
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who → take → pilots
'We just jumped on him and restrained him together with the pilot,' he added.
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he → jump → pilot
Liber said the attacker had been 'neutralised' and was 'seriously injured'.
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attacker → say → ?
He's completely freaked out, but he's managing to land the plane,' he added.
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he → freak → plane
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz held an urgent meeting to discuss the situation, while Israeli airspace was also temporarily closed and later reopened.
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airspace → hold → situation
A regional official briefed on the incident said a fight broke out in the cockpit and apparently involved pilots, but added it wasn't immediately clear what had caused the dispute.
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what → brief → dispute
'We were either going to crash or be murdered.
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We → go → ?
It was like a terrorist attack in mid-air,' one passenger told i24NEWS.
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passenger → tell → i24NEWS
One of the passengers on the Flydubai aircraft can be seen with blood on his shirt
The channel reported that authorities are allegedly investigating whether the pilot attempted to crash the plane, which the co-pilot and passengers prevented.
An Israeli passenger named Miriam, who spoke with Israeli broadcaster i24NEWS, said: 'About an hour or two before the landing, we heard screaming from the plane.'
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'We just heard screaming, and they opened the cockpit and saw a ton of blood from someone who was apparently trying to murder the pilot with a pocketknife.'
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who → hear → pocketknife
She described how the plane lost control and how she feared that the plane was going to crash.
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plane → describe → control
'I screamed "Shema Yisrael", and said "I cannot die",' Miriam said.
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Miriam → scream → Yisrael
According to Miriam, several Israeli passengers helped restrain the attacker, while people onboard with medical training assisted the injured pilot.
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'There were also moments when we thought we weren’t going to make it out alive,' she added.
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she → be → it
Another woman, identifying herself as Noam, told the network in a call: 'Screams began on the plane… by passengers who realised what was happening.
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what → identify → passengers
'We understand that one of the pilots was stabbed and seriously wounded, and they lost control of the plane.
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they → understand → plane
It started to dive quickly.
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Data from publicly available sources shows that two hours and fifteen minutes into the flight, the jet suddenly took a sharp nosedive, dropping from 34,000 to around 17,000 feet in under a minute as it sped up from 411 knots to nearly 600.
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The aircraft recovered slightly for several seconds, reaching 21,650 feet, before dropping sharply again, this time to under 14,000 feet.
Over the next hour, the plane failed to maintain a steady altitude, but it remained at around 15,000 feet, indicating it was being controlled by hand rather than autopilot, according to the Times of Israel.
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Israeli authorities were unable to make contact with the jet during the incident.
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…and 12 more, not listed.
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