One of the pilots of a plane flying from the United Arab Emirates to Israel stabbed his fellow pilot and appeared to try to crash the aircraft, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said, as Israeli officials said they were investigating whether the incident was an attempted terror attack on Israelis.
Eyewitnesses reported chaos onboard the flydubai flight, as the attacker tried to barricade himself and the wounded pilot in the cockpit, and then attempted to disable the controls, forcing the plane to descend 17,000 feet in just two minutes.