Flydubai Flight Lands Safely After Captain Is Stabbed in Cockpit
Archival photo: Flydubai Boeing 737-8KN (A6-FGD) at Dubai in 2019. It is not the aircraft involved in flight FZ1073. Photo: Anna Zvereva / Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 2.0 . Flydubai flight FZ1073 landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after an altercation in the cockpit during its trip from Dubai to Tel Aviv on September 30. Israeli officials said the co-pilot stabbed the captain and tried to crash the aircraft; flydubai has urged the public not to speculate before investigators establish the facts. The Boeing 737 was carrying about 170 passengers when it issued an emergency signal and rapidly lost altitude over Saudi Arabia. Flight-tracking data reviewed by Reuters showed the plane dropping more than 14,000 feet in about 30 seconds. It diverted to Tabuk and landed safely. Flydubai said on-duty crew members who were traveling aboard secured the aircraft and diverted it. The airline said all passengers and crew were safe and accounted for. Both pilots were hospitalized after the land...