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Hijack scare on Tel Aviv-Dubai flight; plane carrying around 180 diverted to Saudi Arabia

20 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 71 hours 23 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · On NewsMarkets

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Publications over time

06:54 UTC06:16 UTC20 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstTimes of IndiaHijack scare on Tel Aviv-Dubai flight; plane carrying around 180 diverted to Saudi Arabia by VIVEK DUBEY
2+38 minutesSky NewsFlight from Dubai to Tel Aviv lands 'safely' in Saudi Arabia after 'brawl between pilots'
3+1 hourSouth China Morning PostFlyDubai flight to Israel diverted to Saudi Arabia after incident in cockpit
4+1 hour 5 minutesCBS NewsFlight to Tel Aviv diverts to Saudi Arabia after reported feud between pilots
5+1 hour 6 minutesAl JazeeraFlyDubai flight to Israel diverted to Saudi Arabia after emergency alert
6+1 hour 31 minutesFrance 24Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots by FRANCE 24
7+2 hours 9 minutesFox NewsFlydubai pilots reportedly fight in cockpit, triggering hijacking fears and Israeli fighter jet response
8+2 hours 15 minutesFinancial TimesUAE-Israel flight diverted after distress signal
9+2 hours 43 minutesDeutsche WelleFlydubai pilot investigated over possible attempt to crash Tel Aviv-bound flight
10+5 hours 2 minutesBusiness InsiderA flight between Dubai and Tel Aviv dropped 17,000 feet, then sent a hijack warning. Here's what we know. by Pete Syme, Will Martin
11+6 hours 41 minutesNPRA flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverts to Saudi Arabia after making distress call by Kat Lonsdorf
12+7 hours 41 minutesBloombergDubai to Tel Aviv Flight Averts Catastrophe After Pilots Fight
13+7 hours 47 minutesFortunePilot stabbed another pilot before plane carrying Israelis plunged 16,000 feet, Netanyahu says by Samy Magdy, Sam Metz, Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press
14+8 hours 10 minutesThe HillWhat to know about FlyDubai cockpit clash as pilot is arrested by Mira Bhakta
15+13 hours 25 minutesAxiosFlyDubai flight spirals into chaos. What we know and what remains a mystery by Herb Scribner
16+15 hours 55 minutesThe Japan TimesPassengers foil bid to crash Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, Israel says, after co-pilot stabs pilot
17+17 hours 36 minutesNational ReviewMiracle on FlyDubai by The Editors
18+27 hours 51 minutesThe GuardianFirst Thing: Details remain unclear after ‘terror attack’ on Dubai-Israel flight by Martin Belam
19+27 hours 52 minutesThe DispatchThe Cornell Case Gets a Second Look by Surya Gowda, James P. Sutton, Evan Spear, Ross Anderson
20+71 hours 23 minutesABC NewsCo-pilot in FlyDubai incident is identified as Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami

Who covered it, by audience

18 of 20 publications on this story have an audience score.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (6)Mixed audience (9)Audience leans Republican (3)

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.