Flydubai Passengers Recount Terrifying Mid-Air Struggle

An Israeli couple on a Flydubai flight described the "moments of terror" when a co-pilot attempted to hijack the plane. Tali Manis, traveling with her husband Tzvi and young daughter, noticed something was wrong when she heard banging on the cockpit door while taking her daughter to the restroom. She then heard screams and, looking into the cockpit, realized the plane was not being piloted. "I saw it before my eyes, the stabbing, and there was no pilot in the plane, I started screaming: 'They are stabbing the pilot! They are stabbing the pilot!'" she recounted.

Tzvi Manis, who was among the Israeli passengers who fought to regain control of the aircraft, described the plane plunging at a 90-degree angle. "The plane dived at ninety degrees, the girl remained in the bathroom. We, three people, managed to understand what was happening and take control of what happened there," he said. The passengers' intervention ultimately saved the lives of everyone on board.

The incident occurred on a Flydubai flight, and the couple shared their harrowing experience on Thursday with the "Ha'Boker Ha'Zeh" program on Kan News. The article also references a minute-by-minute account of the events, detailing the struggle, the dive, and the neutralization of the threat.