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The Gateway Pundit reported that on Wednesday, an Israel-bound Flydubai flight made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after plunging thousands of feet following an attack in the cockpit.
Flight FZ1073 took off from Dubai for Tel Aviv with more than 170 people on board, almost all of them Israeli.
Less than an hour from entering Israeli airspace, Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian pilot, was stabbed by his co-pilot, an Omani national.
After hearing screams from the cockpit, a group of passengers ran toward it, and one of the passengers broke down the door and subdued the co-pilot, who appeared to be attempting to damage the plane’s controls and crash the plane in Israel in a 9/11-style attack.
Two pilots traveling on board were able to land the plane safely.
Veteran pilot Captain Byron Bailey joined SkyNews Australia to discuss the attempted hijacking and, much to the dismay of the reporter interviewing him, shared the truth about the motive behind the failed effort.
Captain Bailey shared, “I’m not really surprised with FlyDubai operating Dubai to Tel Aviv and with Muslim pilots. Well, not all Muslim, but the captain was Indian. He was a real hero in this. I’ve flown in and out of Tel Aviv with the British airline a lot. I also flew many times out of Dubai, so I’m fairly aware of the whole situation.”
“But how deep do you want to go into it? Because I hear them saying, ‘Oh, we wonder what the motive is.’”
“Well, excuse me. In the Middle East, the motive is the fact that Islam calls for the death of Jews, all Jews. It’s part of the core belief of Islam.”
“This Royal Commission, this joke they had in Australia recently about antisemitism, just ignores the reality of what is the core belief of Islam. That all Jews must die until the world becomes pure, free of Jews.”
“So, this was actually probably an act of religious devotion, where the guy took the advantage of the fact that he could kill Jews and martyr himself in the process, because that’s what they want to do.”
The reporter didn’t want to talk about the motive behind the attempt to kill innocent people and awkwardly shifted the topic to “technical aspects.”
“OK, but, Brian, let’s just stick to the technical aspect here…with how perhaps passengers, luckily, were able to get into the cockpit.”
Watch:
SkyNews Australia had veteran Captain, Byron Bailey on talking about the FlyDubai Flight from the UAE – Tel Aviv and let’s just say, it didn’t go the way Sky News expected it to. Watch! pic.twitter.com/wUS4DDzhzj
— Israel75 (@IFNY2775) October 2, 2026
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