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Passengers recount terrifying attempted hijack of Dubai-to-Israel flight
Passenger Ron Levi tells CBS News the attempted hijack of a Dubai-to-Israel flight was "the scariest thing possible."
Breaking Points
What the coverage shows
Most outlets converge on Netanyahu’s account that one pilot stabbed the other and appeared to try to crash the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight, forcing a diversion and landing in Saudi Arabia. CNN’s early pieces and CBS frame it more generally as a violent cockpit incident or fight between pilots, while Reuters focuses on graphic video from the plane. BBC, NPR, the Guardian, ABC, the Washington Post and others add passenger intervention or arrest details, but those specifics appear in only some extracts.
Written by Crossfiled from the 6 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.
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