TabukFlight FZ1073 squawked hijack code and dropped 14,000 feet.
The 174 passengers, mostly Israeli, landed in Saudi Arabia, which has no diplomatic ties with Israel.
The plane sent emergency code 7700 over Jordan, then hijack code 7500, and Israel scrambled fighter jets.
Some Israeli officials call it a terror attempt, but Flydubai says a fight between crew members triggered the signal.
Flydubai sent a second aircraft to Tabuk and opened an investigation into the crew.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 750+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- TRT World
- attributes emergency codes (7700, 7500) to cockpit altercation based on Israeli media reporting, 174 passengers aboard
- CNBC
- measures flight-tracking metrics: 14,000-foot descent in 30 seconds via Flightradar24, tracks emergency signal sequence
- News18 leans critical
- sourced from Israeli security assessments claiming suspected Omani hijacker with co-pilot crash-intent, contradicts pilot-fight account
- Daily Maverick
- cites Israeli PM spokesman's 'different incident' denial of hijacking, contextualizes route popularity since UAE-Israel normalization
- protothemanews.com
- records passenger testimony confirming pilot fight, documents authorities' terror-attack examination with 'major disaster averted' framing
Sources: TRT World, CNBC, News18, Daily Maverick, protothemanews.com