A violent fight in the cockpit between the pilot and co-pilot led to the emergency that affected a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The fight may have been triggered by the desire to prevent the plane from deliberately crashing by one of the two pilots, one of Russian origin and the other of Ukrainian origin.

According to the reconstruction, the altercation between the two, which began after takeoff, quickly escalated, with one of the two fighters even losing consciousness. "There was a stabbing," witnesses on board reportedly said. An investigation is underway to reconstruct the details of what happened: senior Israeli aviation officials have reported that, based on an initial assessment, one of the pilots attempted to crash into a sensitive target, but the other managed to foil the attempt with the help of some Israeli passengers. This could therefore have been a case of terrorism or—another hypothesis—a suicide attempt.

When the emergency was launched, Israeli fighter jets also took off to escort the aircraft, which then made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

(Unioneonline)