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WORLD NEWS: An Axe in the Cockpit — 1930s Radio | October 5, 2026
October 5, 2026. The full account of what happened aboard Flydubai 1073 last Wednesday is far worse than first reported, and it is now the central question of an Israeli election twenty-two days away. The co-pilot attacked the captain with the cockpit crash axe and tried to fly the aircraft into the ground. He had been barred from flying by his own government.
Tonight's report:
• Flydubai 1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv. As it approached Israeli airspace the Omani co-pilot attacked the Indian captain, Smit Machchhar, with the crash axe carried in every cockpit for cutting a way out after an accident•…
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