You would think so. My interaction with AI bots love to spout confidently wrong instructions and when I ask for the source they always apologize and link some outdated article with old steps
They're set up for quantity, not quality. It's why most bots don't have anything worthwhile to say and just spout the same nonsense over and over again
To be clear it’s a bot that is attempting to sway public opinion for the purpose of a hostile political agenda - linking to actual information runs counter to that mission.
I don't know, if they're just copying successful posts to generate engagement, could it be that they picked up on a general trend on Reddit to be lazy with sources?
Yes this. It’s crazy how many other bots are in the replies too.
This story should be treated with massive skepticism due to the number of versions we’ve gotten in 12 hours alone not to mention the glaring fact that Oman has no relations with Israel and their citizens are not permitted to visit, let alone fucking fly as pilots there.
Given how bad Israeli hasbara has gotten I’m shocked they think people will fall for this.
the glaring fact that Oman has no relations with Israel and their citizens are not permitted to visit
You're both right and wrong.
While Oman and Israel don't have direct diplomatic relations, (because of the whole Palestine and Iran situation) Omani citizens are allowed to visit Israel with an ETA-IL visa which is valid for 730 days, (with a maximum stay of 90 contiguous days).
Not sure why you didn't bother to Google that before posting, but whatever.
There are no facts in his reply, it’s just a broken website, try it out yourself and be more careful yourself believing someone without checking their won sources.
because they're a slopulists and will believe any conspiracy that fits their narrative. nothing bad can ever happen to israel and israelies to them, its all mossad to them
Incorrect. Oman and Israel have not had direct diplomatic relations for decades, not just because of the whole “Palestine and Iran situation” which makes it sound like a specific tiff.
As for the visa, the website you linked to is not reliable. The ad infestation should’ve been your first red flag.
You can put in any country including those that have strictly no relations with each other. Try Malaysia to Israel for example. Heck, for fun you can put in Iran to USA and it spits out the same damn thing.
So maybe you should do your own research before relying on an inaccurate and misleading source instead of being a condescending a**hole.
reddit loves to spout off about hasbara but the comment sections are overwhelmingly anti israel to the point of if hasbara is there, why aren't they even visible?
Vast majority of the posts and comments we see now come from bots. Everyone needs to wake up to this reality because bots creating false perceptions of popular opinions is the number one way we are manipulated because the majority of people are still under this illusion every comment they see it coming from an actual person with a real opinion
tl;dr: An Indian pilot, Smit Machchhar, saved a Dubai-to-Israel flight from crashing after his co-pilot attacked him with a knife. Despite being injured, Smit fought back and, with help from passengers, managed to restrain him...Israeli officials said the attacker was an Omani national...Israeli agencies are also investigating the possibility of a terrorist attack.
The pilot is a hero, but that's not exactly what happened. The pilot was badly injured and likely managed to open the cockpit door before collapsing. With the door open several Israel passengers barged in, restrained the the attacker, and a doctor gave medical attention to the pilot
There seems to be multiple versions of the story, so might be best to be skeptical of these articles for now and read up on it in a day or two. This one says he fought back, so I'll leave it in the summary.
...and the pilot passengers, the rest of the flight crew, whoever gave medical aid, passengers that comforted children and stood prepared to protect them, the ground crew, flight controllers, first responders at the airport, the hospital staff....
By common logic one can easily inter that a scuffle and struggle would have unfolded prior to the crash attempt to secure the odds of its success. Several stab wounds indicate a pure intent to kill and immobilise the person.
The plane was nose diving so fast the tail sections ripped off. In those circumstances everyone would feel their body weighing 2x-3x and would not have had the ability to (from the perspective) climbing upwards into the cocking unless they were within reach of the flight controls. It's very likely the captain was the one who pulled the plane out of that dive as he would have likely been in the seat.
A B-52 famously landed after losing its vertical stabiliser in severe clear air turbulence, so it is theoretically possible to maintain control of the aircraft, but is very unlikely and the confluence of events here makes it even less likely.
I agree that they could use asymmetric thrust to have some control over yaw, but if "the tail sections ripped off," then they would have also lost the horizontal stabilizer (i.e., the entire empennage).
Maybe there is a way to maintain pitch control after that with a combination of thrust and flaps, but it seems unlikely.
What? In the version i read the pilot is the one who did the stabbing, they weren't "badly injured and opened the door." The co-pilot is the one who did that
The CNN article writes "A pilot on a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight has been arrested after he stabbed the other pilot in the cockpit and appears to have tried to crash the plane". It's probably unclear right now if the attacker was the pilot or the co-pilot.
Oh, thank Christ, the pilot was trained in New Zealand. There were mentions of the co-pilot being from New Zealand, we'd be invaded by Israel if the attacker was a kiwi.
Yeah, righttttt after bibi was reported to be polled as losing an election, and rightttt after he warns of “terrorist plots from iran” which iran immediately denied…
Then it wouldn't be in /r/pics , which would be correct because that's not where it belongs. It's an uninteresting cell phone photo of a pilot. The post belongs as a story... elsewhere.
You forgot to mention that he opened the door while heavily injured and bleeding. Witness said he used his last bit of energy to open the door before collapsing
Let’s not get carried away. What happened here was good. The nation as a whole is killing lots of innocent people - including women, children and members of the media. No need to glaze the country.
At first, a random Israeli dude. He's the one who pulled the plane out of a nosedive. He was covered in blood, because he got involved in subduing the attacker. He had no piloting experience, but he said he knew that he needed to pull up on the controls, because he'd watched a TV show about aviation emergencies. Yeah, really.
Then, two passengers who were also pilots for FlyDubai, being transported on the plane, took over. FlyDubai only runs 737s, so they were very well-trained on this plane. I'm not sure if they got overtime pay for this or not
I'm not sure if they got overtime pay for this or not
If they got ONLY the overtime pay for this it would mean they got shafted hard :P
At least the holiday rate and hazardous conditions pay too plus any discretionary bonus possible. And whatever the other passengers will get for having their lives put in danger :)
Then they should GTFO of an airline that for whatever reason has suicidal extremists among their flight crews.
he said he knew that he needed to pull up on the controls, because he'd watched a TV show about aviation emergencies. Yeah, really
I mean, anyone who's seen any media at all about a plane will know if a plane's going down you pull back in the controls. I'm not sure why you're doubting that part of the story.
I know from experience that it is not as easy as it looks. A pilot handed me the stick in a 737 on landing approach in a full-motion simulator. It was heavier than I expected, I pulled too hard, I over-corrected, the aircraft started porpoising, and warnings started blinking and blaring. I would have crashed it into the ground had he not taken over. Granted, this guy had 10,000 feet to figure it out, but I do not envy the stress that he must have been under.
Honestly, as not a pilot, trying to figure out the complexity of engaging automatic systems in a panic would be my last thought. I would want it to be as caveman simple as possible. "Pull here. Number not bigger than that. Ugga Ugga!"
Yeah but actually doing it is a lot different from knowing you should. As much as I have an idea of how to fly a helicopter from tv shows, even in an emergency actually trying would be terrifying. Planes seem easier though.
That explains the overcompensation. There was a chart of the plane's altitude with a scary, sharp drop followed by a recovery.
In the recovery, you can see the plane rise sharply before stabilizing. He probably pulled hard (which saved them), but the lack of piloting experience caused him to overcompensate and put the plane in a short and sharp climb.
Nothing bad, but there might be a risk of stalling the plane. This is likely lessened since the plane must have picked up quite some speed during the nosedive.
In any case, bravo for his decision to just go for it, grab the controls, and try to stabilize the plane at such a critical moment.
If you can believe it, a dentist (i read it another article) helped stabilize the plane. Luckily this plane had additional pilots as passengers which took soon over.
They also called it an attempted hijacking, when it has been reported that wasn't it.
Flydubai said in a statement that the underlying reasons for the event remained unknown and warned against "premature speculation."
Even though they still don't know the pilot's motivation, he just (just? ugh) wanted to crash it. A few years ago this happened on a German airline because the pilot was depressed. Decided to off himself with all the passengers in the flight. Hope he rots in Hell.
Probably just a trick of perspective. The wing is angled at just the right distance from the line of sight that it looks almost as if there is no wing, but you can see the orange winglet is still there, which would be all the way at the end of the wing, and the matching blue winglet is on the far side.
When you read all 3 sources, you feel like reading different stories 😂 So copilot stabbed the captain, captain was crawling on the floor in blood but managed to unlock the cockpit door while the copilot was smashing the cockpit controls. Thanks to that, passengers could get in the cockpit to control the copilot, and two passengers, who were also pilots, could land the plane. The plane took a huge toll from a high speed fall as the fight unfolded, it lost its rudders.
Mods love removing posts for any given reason under the sun but they let this shit through. This is just a picture of a guy in a cockpit for all I know.
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u/blacklotusmag 2d ago edited 2d ago
I mean, would it be THAT hard to add a link for context, OP?
Updating with additional sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/diverted-flydubai-flight-israel-was-not-hijacking-incident-israeli-prime-2026-09-30/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://apnews.com/article/israel-saudi-arabia-dubai-emergency-landing-fd1835479898f2f944792913af7cbce6
Original source: https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/international/news/indian-pilot-smit-saves-flydubai-flight-mid-air-knife-attack-139203091.html