In a meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, passenger Yaniv Hayoun describes how he and another passenger forced their way into a cockpit and found one of the pilots slumped over the controls.
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One of the pilots of the plane flying from the United Arab Emirates to Israel had stabbed his co-pilot and appeared to try to crash the aircraft, Netanyahu said at a press conference on Wednesday. ‘I grabbed the threat, putting him in a chokehold, essentially, and dragged him out first,’ Hayoun said before ‘pulling the controls back’ and allowing the non-stabbing pilot to take over and stabilise the aircraft
Pilot who stabbed co-pilot on Israel-bound plane may have tried to crash it, says Netanyahu ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/israel-bound-passenger-plane-emergency-landing-saudi-arabia-pilots-feud?CMP=yt_gn
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What we know so far about alleged stabbing of pilot by co-pilot on flight to Israel ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/what-we-know-alleged-stabbing-pilot-copilot-flight-israel?CMP=yt_gn
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