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Israel flight hijacking latest: Pilot arrested after stabbing co-pilot and trying to crash plane, Netanyahu says

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Benjamin Netanyahu said that the man was being interrogated by Saudi authorities

Associated Press

What the coverage shows

Most outlets converge on Benjamin Netanyahu’s account that one pilot stabbed the other on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv and that the plane diverted to Saudi Arabia after an emergency descent. CNN is notable for foregrounding sources saying it was a “violent incident” and not a hijacking, while France 24 and some others leave more room for an investigation into a possible terror attack. The Guardian, The Independent, and The Hill each explicitly frame the episode as a possible or alleged attempted hijacking or terror attack, and AP is alone in mentioning Israel scrambling warplanes.

Written by Crossfiled from the 19 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.

Washington PostThe Guardian USAssociated PressThe IndependentNew York TimesThe HillBBC NewsNPR60 MinutesCNNChannel 4 NewsAl JazeeraFrance 24NBC News

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