Reporter's Mother Was on Flight That Narrowly Avoided Disaster
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- Reporter's mother was on a flight that almost crashed.
- The flight was traveling from Dubai to Israel.
- Passengers and crew actions prevented a disaster.
- The reporter expressed relief and anger at the perpetrator.
Noa Spiegel, a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, revealed on Thursday that her 74-year-old mother was aboard the flight from Dubai to Israel that nearly ended in a catastrophic aviation incident. Spiegel shared her distress and difficult feelings in an interview with 103FM, especially as the full scope of the event became clearer.
"It's a terrible experience," Spiegel described. "I am so glad it ended this way, we were close to a disaster of insane proportions." She explained that as she heard more details from her mother about the chain of events in the cabin and cockpit, it became apparent how crucial the resourcefulness of passengers and crew was to saving lives.
"They are full of coincidences of this hero and that hero," Spiegel said, "and that they all managed together to control the situation and save so many people." Even before the full picture of the attempted crash emerged on Wednesday, Spiegel had expressed her emotional turmoil upon learning her mother was at the center of the drama. In a post she published, she sent a strong message to the perpetrator: "I am not a violent person in any way, but the man who decided to put my mother, at the age of 74, through what she went through on the flight from Dubai this morning, well, I suggest we don't meet."
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