Tag: hijacking

• Wednesday, September 30th 2026 - 18:10 UTC

  Pilot stabs another on a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight and passengers subdue him

  

  A pilot on a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv stabbed another pilot in the cockpit on Wednesday and, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “apparently tried to crash the plane”. Passengers and crew members subdued him, and the aircraft made an emergency landing in Tabuk, in north-west Saudi Arabia, with all 174 passengers safe, 166 of them Israelis.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Gunman holding a busload of passenger’s hostage in Rio was shot dead by police sniper

  

  A gunman holding a busload of passengers hostage in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday was shot dead by police, officials said, ending the hours-long hijacking. Dozens of people were trapped on the bus after it was commandeered by the gunman on a heavily transited bridge connecting Rio with the neighboring city of Niteroi.