Abu DhabiThe plane plunged 16,000 feet in 30 seconds.
The UAE attorney general says the co-pilot meant to crash the flight into Ben Gurion Airport.
Flight FZ1073 was over Saudi airspace when the co-pilot hit Captain Smit Machchhar with a cockpit crash axe.
“I was not very sure that I’ll make it out alive from this,” said Captain Smit Machchhar.
The Omani suspect, transferred to the UAE, remains under a criminal investigation opened 1 October.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 70+ reports worldwide
- Reuters
- The Guardian
- reconstructs the attack from the captain's hospital-bed account, including losing consciousness after reaching for the cockpit door knob
- The Jerusalem Post
- pushes the hero framing by quoting the captain's account of blocking blows and screaming the co-pilot's name, and notes the interview ran in The National, which is Abu Dhabi state-owned
Sources: Reuters, The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post