Make New York Post a Preferred Source Yaniv Hayun, one of the men who helped incapacitate an attacker on a FlyDubai aircraft bound for Israel from the United Arab Emirates, reacts after arriving at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel on Sept. 30, 2026. REUTERS Hooray for the brave pilot, passengers and crew of Tel Aviv-bound FlyDubai 1073 who foiled its co-pilot’s evil attempt to murder his captain and — in all likelihood — crash the plane into an Israeli city or monument, killing everyone aboard.
The maniac’s strike right after the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and a few days before the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter was an obvious terror attack, likely inspired by pro-Hamas or Islamist sympathies.
We know that the co-pilot stabbed pilot Smit Machchhar (an Indian national), who despite serious wounds managed to open the cabin door, alerting crew and passengers.
As the plane entered a tailspin, plummeting 15,000 feet in just two minutes, a crewmember and passenger managed to squeeze into the cockpit and forcibly subdue the co-pilot, who was trying to disable the plane’s controls.
Luckily, two other pilots were aboard and landed the plane in Saudi Arabia.
By a miracle, everyone survived, with the hero pilot’s injuries being treated.
This was the happy sequel to Flight 93: Somewhere, Todd Beamer & Co. are surely cheering their heirs.
Yet prestige media were remarkably slow to acknowledge the obvious aspects of the story: “A plane flying from Dubai to Israel was diverted after an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot,” posted The New York Times.
An “altercation”? That’s like describing the JFK assassination as a collision between his head and a small flying object. (Aside from the altercation, was the in-flight service to your liking?)
The Times later sniffed, “unlike activists and partisans, we don’t publish speculation or unverified information.”
Umm: Calling Hunter Biden’s laptop a Russian op? Insisting it was racist and unscientific to ask if COVID leaked from a lab? The Gaza famine hoax and the “Israeli rape dog” one? Russiagate?
At least one bright spot shines through here: the unified response of the Indian pilot, international crew and Israeli passengers — on an Emirati plane over Saudi airspace — in acting quickly to foil the would-be mass killing.
That’s the real “united nations” in action, not the vacuous gabfest that just finished in New York.
