{"id":87077,"date":"2026-09-30T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87077"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:59:37","slug":"israeli-jet-plunges-after-pilot-stabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/israeli-jet-plunges-after-pilot-stabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Jet Plunges After Pilot Stabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em>[caution tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/fz1073-dubai-international-airport-ben-143133993.jpg\" alt=\"A passenger stands inside an airplane cabin wearing a blood-stained t-shirt and jeans, with hands raised, after reportedly subduing a pilot on board Flydubai flight FZ1073.\" width=\"190\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Israel-bound passenger plane pilot was reportedly stabbed several times by the jet\u2019s co-pilot in the cockpit \u2014 and the terrifying scenes caused the aircraft to plunge almost 20,000 feet in minutes, sparking fears of a \u201cterrorist attack in mid-air.\u201d\u00a0The jet, which departed Dubai for Tel Aviv just before 7 a.m., was cruising at around 34,000 feet before violence broke out in the cockpit around two-and-a-half hours into the flight, Israel\u2019s <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-military\/2026_q3\/Article-45704a49d61f0a1026.htm#main_article=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Channel 12 reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The co-pilot tried to take control of the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane, which was carrying 174 passengers including 27 children, and attacked the pilot several times, the outlet reported. \u201cWe were either going to crash or be murdered,\u201d one passenger <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/artc-us-withdraws-forces-from-bases-in-iraq-on-tuesday-raising-fears-of-vacuum-for-terror-groups-live-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told I24 News.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: An Israel-bound passenger plane pilot was reportedly stabbed several times by the jet\u2019s co-pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87078,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87077\/revisions\/87078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}