# On board the flydubai attack: Passengers say they helped foil crash attempt

https://mins.news/en/video/81713

- Reuters, 2026-10-01 11:12 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3fyz__429M

> A passenger says he seized the controls of a plunging flydubai flight after the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, helping avert an attempted crash. The bulletin also covers the USS George Washington in the Strait of Hormuz, Iowa’s cancer rate, a failed Tennessee execution and AI-driven Big Mac pricing.

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