Possible terror-attempt on FlyDubai plane

[Jimmy Higgins]

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Early on, details are emerging. Sounds like a pilot may have been stabbed by co-pilot, who then allegedly tried to crash the plane that was on route to Tel Aviv.

 

[thebeave]

Plane of Peace?

 

[brewer]

ABC stated that a passenger got thru the unlocked cabin door, choked out the co-pilot, then got the plane out of the nose dive. Said he learned how to fly by watching TV/movies.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I read that the crowd overpowered the co-pilot. And afterward, they asked if there were other pilots on the plane and there were 2 more. This is the most surprising thing to me about this story.

 

[bilby]

And afterward, they asked if there were other pilots on the plane and there were 2 more. This is the most surprising thing to me about this story.

Pilots deadhead all the time. It doesn't surprise me at all.

There are limits to how long a crew can work before being relieved by a fresh crew. On long-haul (which this wasn't) two complete flightdeck crews are the rule, not the exception.