FlyDubai Flight Panic: Co-Pilot's Terrifying Attempt to Hijack Mid-Air

A passenger shared terrifying footage of the moment a FlyDubai plane plunged thousands of feet after the co-pilot "tried to do 9-11". The FlyDubai Boeing 737 Max 8 plane was flying from the United Arab Emirates to Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday (September 30) when it suddenly lost altitude and made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. A video shared on X appears to show panicked passengers moving through the shaking cabin as the aircraft dives, while people speaking Hebrew can be heard crying and screaming.

FlyDubai flight FZ1073 was traveling from Dubai International Airport to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. Credit: SOPA Images / Getty According to The New York Post , FlightAware data reported that the plane, which is the low-cost sister carrier of Emirates Airlines, dropped from approximately 34,000 feet to around 15,400 feet in just 12 minutes. Israeli officials have alleged that one of the pilots stabbed the other several times before trying to seize control of the plane.

"One pilot stabbed the other and tried to do 9/11," an official told Channel 12. Passengers described screams before the plane began to dive Passenger Dalia Shpigel told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the aircraft lost control and began to "dive" about an hour before it was due to land, BBC News cited. She told the outlet that "suddenly there were terrible screams throughout the plane" before "three to five guys burst into the cockpit" and subdued the attacker and began treating the injured pilot.