Less than 12 hours after the FlyDubai plane landed in Saudi Arabia, pundits began speculating how the plane hijacking attempt could benefit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli elections. The immediate pivot to electoral consequences stripped the humanity from the 180 passengers, most of them Israelis, who had just narrowly escaped death.
One pilot stabbed another on a FlyDubai flight en route to Tel Aviv, resulting in the stabbed pilot sending distress and hijacking signals. The plane took a nosedive and a mass casualty event was thwarted by brave crew members and Israeli passengers who subdued the attacking copilot. Despite this known information, early and mid-day mainstream media news reports sanitized the terrifying events as a "fight," "brawl," or "clash" in the cockpit.
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