One Flight, Two Headlines: How a Mid-Air Stabbing Became Either a “Pilot Fight” or a Stopped Terror Attack
On Wednesday morning, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 left Dubai for Tel Aviv with roughly 174 people on board, including about 27 children and a large number of Israeli passengers. About two hours in, the Boeing 737 MAX 8 dropped thousands of feet in seconds, squawked a general emergency, then the aviation code for unlawful interference, 7500, the signal associated with a hijacking, and diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Both pilots were taken to a hospital. Every passenger survived.
That is the core of the story. What happened next in the press was almost a second incident.
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One Flight, Two Headlines: How a Mid-Air Stabbing Became Either a “Pilot Fight” or a Stopped Terror Attack
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