TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Is there a doctor or pilot?’: New video shows chaos on flydubai flight after attack thwarted
October 2, 2026

New footage aired Thursday by Israeli television showed the chaotic moments aboard flydubai Flight 1073 after passengers and crew members thwarted an apparent attempt to crash the plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv. In a video clip shared by Channel 12 news, which was filmed from a seat near the cockpit, people shout in a mixture of English and Hebrew, with one person saying “he tried to crash the plane,” in reference to the Omani copilot who stabbed the plane’s Indian captain. Others yell “take him out” in the direction of the cockpit and order people in the cabin to “sit down.”…According to Hayun, the Israeli who steadied the plane, the copilot called out, “Kill me,” after being tied up. In a clip released by the Government Press Office, Musayev described how the Israelis initially used headphone wire to tie up the copilot, “to ensure that he could not start to go wild.” READ MORE

JPOST ‘The cockpit was empty’: Israeli recounts fight to survive flydubai attempted hijacking During the confrontation aboard the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight on Wednesday, he said, there had been an interval when nobody was inside it. He understood that the two pilots traveling among the passengers had to take over. “I had to shake them to get them to move to the front and take control of the plane, because it was diving,” he had told The Jerusalem Post in our initial exchange…Tal described several things happening at once. Passengers were trying to overcome the attacker. The injured pilot needed help. The additional pilots had remained in the cabin and, in his description, appeared frozen. He shouted for them to move forward and take control. He then had to shake them, he said. One ultimately took control of the aircraft; the other took longer to recover from the shock.