{"id":93878,"date":"2026-10-03T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/flydubai-co-pilot-attacked-captain-with-axe-uae-official-says-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:45:16","slug":"flydubai-co-pilot-attacked-captain-with-axe-uae-official-says-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/flydubai-co-pilot-attacked-captain-with-axe-uae-official-says-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Flydubai co-pilot attacked captain with axe, UAE official says | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-pilot who attempted to take control of a Flydubai plane travelling to Israel attacked the pilot with a crash <!--more--> axe, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general has said.<\/p>\n<p>The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv carrying more than 170 people plunged 17,000ft (5,200m) two and a half hours into its journey, before passengers managed to overpower the attacker and successfully take control of the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Two reserve pilots then landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE attorney general told state media that investigations were ongoing to determine the full circumstances and motives of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Flydubai #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-pilot who attempted to take control of a Flydubai plane travelling to Israel attacked the pilot with a crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}