Terror on the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, "co-pilot attempted to crash the plane". Media i…

Serious accident in the skies of the Middle East: an alleged attempted crash on a FlyDubai flight bound for Tel Aviv triggers the highest security alarm in Israel. After the dramatic fight in the cabin to block the co-pilot, the plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia with evident structural damage to the tail rudder due to the sharp nosedive. In the meantime, the Emirates are ordering the return of the aircraft and blocking the connections.

During the journey, an alarm was raised due to an emergency that had arisen fears of a possible hijackingso much so that Israeli fighters took off. The plane finally landed in Saudi Arabia, at Tabuk airport, in circumstances that are still unclear.

The Emirati airline Flydubai has confirmed that a “fight in the cockpit” occurred on the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, the causes and reasons of which are not yet known, and which is the subject of an “investigation”. “The situation on board was secured by the Flydubai crew on duty who was traveling on the flight, which diverted its route and landed safely at Tabuk airport,” a company spokesperson said.

“At this early stage, the causes and motivations behind the incident are not known and are the subject of an official investigation,” he added, urging “all parties to refrain from premature speculation while the authorities reconstruct the facts.” “We have sent two replacement planes to Tabuk to take care of passengers and crew” and “the accident has no repercussions on other operations scheduled in the flydubai network”.

The hypotheses being examined by investigators

From the first reconstructions it seems that there was a clash in the cabin between the two pilots. Israeli sources, once the plane landed, reported growing suspicions that the co-pilot wanted to commit suicide. For this reason, investigations are underway to understand whether the man wanted to bring down the plane as part of a terrorist attack. It is the latter – reports the press – the trail that is increasingly making its way between the leaders of the IDF, Shin Bet and Mossadafter an initial evaluation.

The role of the second team of drivers

Unconfirmed sources cited by Israeli sites have also indicated the presence on board of a second team of pilots in civilian clothespresent for an exercise. They would have been the ones to prevent the co-pilot from taking control of the plane. The man suspected of trying to bring down the plane is from Omani origin while the other is said to be a citizen of the United Arab Emirates.

The interrogations begin

Once landed, the co-pilot has been taken into custody by the Saudi authorities who are questioning himwith the involvement of Israel too. The first images arriving from inside the plane show a passenger with a blood-stained t-shirt.

The dynamics of the emergency

The plane, which departed from Abu Dhabi, was flying over Saudi Arabia at 8.22am when it suddenly started a rapid descent, going from 34,000 to 16,000 feet in less than two minutes. Someone then activated a general emergency code, followed a few minutes later by a hijacking code. The aircraft flew in the direction of Jordan, entering the country’s airspace, before reversing course again towards the Wahhabi Kingdom. Some passengers on board reported to Haaretz That the pilots had lost control of the plane and that other passengers, having realized the situation, had intervened, forcing entry into the cockpit. Second Ynet the Omani co-pilot apparently tried to take control of the plane to make it crashbut would have been overpowered by the pilot with the help of some passengers. He would have reported in the scuffle stab wounds.

The images show that the Flydubai flight landed at Tabuk airport in Saudi Arabia, suffered damage to the tail rudder. The pictures show that a section of the rudder is missing from the vertical stabilizer. The images also show passengers, many of them Israelis, disembarking from the plane. During the accident, The Boeing 737 MAX made a sharp dive, falling from 34,000 to about 17,000 feet in less than a minute. Arik Zer, former head of air security for the Shin Bet, said the plane’s rapid dive probably caused the damage, telling the television channel Channel 12 That “it certainly cannot be said that the impact was caused by an external object”.

media Israel, FlyDubai co-pilot wanted to replicate 9/11

The co-pilot of the FlyDubai flight forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia wanted to crash the plane with the passengers on board and emulate the attackers of September 11, 2001. A senior Israeli official told N12, according to whom the co-pilot had stabbed the pilot to take control of the plane and make it crash.
“One pilot stabbed the other and attempted to replicate 9/11”, declared the source, “there is still no certain confirmation that he was a terrorist but the first assessments indicate that the objective was to crash the plane into the ground and not to hijack it”.