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Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident

Airline grounds services for six days following a suspected terror attempt aboard a Dubai to Tel Aviv flight.

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Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident

What this story says

  • Flydubai flights to and from Israel were suspended for six days after an incident on flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
  • An Omani co-pilot is suspected of attempting a terror attack, according to Israeli officials.
  • The Israeli Prime Minister's Office stated the incident was not an attempted hijacking.
  • The Israeli Transportation Minister urged a halt to Flydubai operations.

Who covered it

Left 27%(57)Centre 28%(61)Right 45%(97)

Percentages are shares of the 215 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 179 of the 394 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

60/100

Hype

41/100

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Missing from the left

Only 57 of the 215 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Flydubai has temporarily suspended all flights to and from Israel for six days following an incident aboard flight FZ1073, which was travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The airline stated the suspension would allow authorities to establish all facts surrounding the event and that it is coordinating with government bodies and regulators.

Israeli officials suspect an Omani co-pilot of attempting to carry out a terror attack and crash the aircraft. The attempt was reportedly thwarted by another pilot with assistance from passengers. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed the incident but stated it was not an attempted hijacking. The aircraft transmitted emergency codes, including one indicating unlawful interference or a possible hijacking, before turning back towards Saudi Arabia.

Disagreement on the nature of the incident

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office stated that the incident was not an attempted hijacking. However, Israeli officials cited by Ynet News suspect the Omani co-pilot of attempting to carry out a terror attack and crash the aircraft. Arutz Sheva's digest states the suspension followed a co-pilot attempting to crash the plane.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention the Israeli Prime Minister's Office statement that the incident was not an attempted hijacking. The Jerusalem Post's full report and Ynet News' full report both include this detail.

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Coverage settled. We checked this 10 times and stopped on 6 Oct 2026, 11:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

57 rated outlets

  • The left-rated outlets reported that an Omani co-pilot attempted to crash a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv. Ynet News reported that the co-pilot was suspected of carrying out a terror attack, an attempt thwarted by another pilot and Israeli passengers.
  • Several outlets noted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that the co-pilot had undergone Islamist radicalization and had a motive to kill Jews. The Washington Post and Sydney Morning Herald mentioned authorities were examining the co-pilot's personal life.
  • Reports indicated the flight transmitted emergency codes before diverting to Saudi Arabia. Ynet News stated Flydubai operates up to 10 flights daily to Israel, a route that has grown in importance since the Abraham Accords.

Centre

61 rated outlets

  • All six centre‑rated outlets reported that Flydubai halted its services to and from Israel while an investigation proceeds into a pilot‑related incident. The five digests each led with the same line that the airline will suspend flights pending the probe.
  • The Jerusalem Post published a full article that added that the suspension follows an attempted hijacking of flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv. It quoted the airline’s statement that the pause allows authorities to establish facts and noted a Shin Bet recommendation to halt UAE‑Israel flights.
  • The digests omitted the flight number, the airline’s quoted remarks, and the security agency’s recommendation, reporting only the suspension and ongoing investigation. No digest mentioned the coordination with regulators or the description of the incident as an attempted hijacking, details that appear solely in the Jerusalem Post piece.

Right

97 rated outlets

  • Six right-rated reports focused on the suspension of Flydubai flights to Israel. Arutz Sheva and VINnews digests described the incident as an attempted attack or hijacking. Jewish News Syndicate highlighted Flydubai as a symbol of Israel-UAE ties at the centre of the suspected hijacking attempt, quoting a former Israeli envoy urging caution. Israel Hayom mentioned that Israeli airlines would operate rescue flights in Flydubai's place. Anadolu Ajansı reported on a second Flydubai flight heading to Israel after a reported turnaround and noted the transportation minister's call for grounding flights.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident?
Of the 215 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 27% are rated left, 28% are rated centre, 45% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 394. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 215 rated outlets on this story, 27% are rated left, 28% are rated centre, 45% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident biased?
Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident is one event reported by 394 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Flydubai suspends Israel flights after co-pilot incident?
394 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why were Flydubai flights to Israel suspended?
Flydubai suspended flights to and from Israel for six days following an incident aboard flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv. An Omani co-pilot is suspected of attempting a terror attack, prompting the airline to cooperate with authorities during the investigation.
What was the nature of the incident aboard the Flydubai flight?
Israeli officials suspect an Omani co-pilot of attempting a terror attack and crashing the aircraft. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office stated it was not an attempted hijacking, though the flight did transmit emergency codes indicating potential unlawful interference.
What action did the Israeli Transportation Minister take?
The Israeli Transportation Minister, Miri Regev, urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately halt Flydubai's operations until the circumstances of the incident were clarified. She also argued that Flydubai had violated the aviation agreement between Israel and the UAE.

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