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Bibi Netanyahu Says It Wasn’t a Hijacking, but the Internet Had Already Decided Otherwise.
174 people survived flight FZ1073. What followed them off the plane should scare Europe more than the attack itself.
At 8:21 in the morning, Israel time, somewhere above the border between Saudi Arabia and Jordan, a Boeing 737 with 174 people on board (almost all of them Israelis), bound for Tel Aviv, suddenly began to dive… (but by now we all know that)
Flight tracking data shows a steep dive from 34,000 feet, then a sharp climb, then another dive. In the cabin, a passenger later said, it felt like an extreme roller coaster, and another remembers seeing a lot of blood. (I’ve watched the videos filmed inside the plane, and I can assure you they are terrifying. I won’t link them out of respect, but you can find them on X.)
Behind the armored cockpit door, the captain had just been stabbed. Bleeding, he did the only thing he still could: he reached for the lock and opened the door.
The man holding the knife was wearing the airline’s uniform. He had been hired and cleared to sit at the controls.
As far as I’m concerned, this is the detail that should keep us up at night, far more than the word everyone used in the…
