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Flydubai passenger describes hugging his children as plane nosedived during attack

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Adam Polovincik tells the BBC he told his young children "everything is going to be all right" as flight plunged more than 17,000ft (5,200m).

What the coverage shows

Both BBC News and CBS News focus on passengers describing frightening moments on the Flydubai flight, with the BBC centering Adam Polovincik’s account of hugging his children and reassuring them as the plane plunged. CBS News casts the coverage more broadly around multiple passengers, naming Hila Evron and Adam Polo and explicitly mentioning the cockpit attack, while the BBC extract alone gives the detail about the 17,000ft descent.

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