flydubai co-pilot stabbed captain on Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, sending 737 into nosedive; Netanyahu says catastrophe averted

A flydubai Boeing 737 from Dubai to Tel Aviv nosedived from about 34,000 feet to 17,000 on September 30 after co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, 29, stabbed Indian captain Smit Machchhar, who hit the cockpit door release while bleeding, Israeli security sources told The Telegraph. An Israeli official says al-Hammami's social media showed he was "radicalized into jihadist ideology."

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