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Passengers Overpower Terrorist Hijacker, Stop 9/11-Style Plane Attack
A knife-wielding Omani co-pilot repeatedly stabbed his Emirati captain and tried to nosedive a packed Tel Aviv-bound jetliner on Wednesday, sending it plunging 18,000 feet before a band of heroic Israeli passengers smashed into the cockpit and wrestled the attacker to the floor, according to Israeli officials and passenger accounts.Israel has reportedly classified the incident as an attempted terror attack.Flydubai Flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, took off from Dubai early Wednesday with roughly 174 people on board, including about 27 children, bound for Ben Gurion Airport. About an hour and a half out from Israel, the jet first flashed a general distress signal, code 7700. Minutes later, it switched to 7500, the code for “unlawful interference,” aviation shorthand for a hijacking. Then it vanished from flight-tracking apps.Israeli Air Force fighter jets roared into the sky, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz huddled in an emergency meeting.Early reports painted the drama as little more than a cockpit scuffle between two feuding pilots. That...
By: dailywire.com
