{"id":583342,"date":"2026-09-30T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=583342"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:32:26","slug":"flydubai-plane-sends-hijack-alert-after-fight-between-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/flydubai-plane-sends-hijack-alert-after-fight-between-pilots","title":{"rendered":"Flydubai Plane Sends Hijack Alert After Fight Between Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A flydubai aircraft operating a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv sent a hijack alert on September 30. It later emerged that the alert was triggered by a fight between the Russian and Ukrainian pilots.<\/p>\n<p>There were 174 passengers on board, including 27 children. At around 9 a.m., while the aircraft was in Jordanian airspace, it sent an emergency signal, followed by a hijack alert. Israel scrambled fighter jets. At 9:30 a.m., contact with the aircraft was lost, but it reappeared on flight-tracking systems a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The plane changed course and landed safely at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-military\/2026_q3\/Article-679bc8fcfe0f0a1026.htm#main_article=1\">Israel\u2019s Channel 12<\/a>, the incident was caused by a fight between the Ukrainian and Russian pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flydubai aircraft operating a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv sent a hijack alert on September 30. It later emerged that the alert was triggered by a fight between the Russian and Ukrainian pilots. There were 174 passengers on board, including 27 children. At around 9 a.m., while the aircraft was in Jordanian airspace, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":583341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abcc91d47d27.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Flydubai Plane Sends Hijack Alert After Fight Between Pilots"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583343,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583342\/revisions\/583343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}