FlyDubai Co-Pilot Stabs Captain, Attempts to Crash Jet Into Tel Aviv
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An Omani co-pilot on FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 stabbed Indian Captain Smit Machchhar mid-flight and allegedly tried to crash the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv plane into Ben Gurion Airport on September 30. Passengers and crew subdued the attacker after the plane plunged roughly 17,000 feet, and it made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia's Tabuk; investigators are probing his extremist background.
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