Plane Hijacking Foiled & Hegseth Reshapes the Military | 10.1.26

Morning Wire

The episode covers a dramatic attempted hijacking of a Fly Dubai flight thwarted by heroic passengers and the pilot. It also explores the dr

Key takeaways

• Passengers and a pilot successfully thwarted a hijacking attempt on Fly Dubai flight 1073 after an Omani co-pilot stabbed the captain.
• Captain Smit Mature, despite severe injuries, managed to open the cockpit door to allow passengers to intervene.

Main topics

• Fly Dubai hijacking attempt
• U.S. economic growth and AI

Notable quotes

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Conclusion

The episode provides a high-stakes overview of shifting geopolitical l

Transcript preview

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Speaker 6 (2:59) A group of passengers aboard an Israel-bound passenger jet stopped an attempted terror attack on Wednesday. Here with more details is Wired In host Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, a dramatic sequence of events yesterday. We're all riveted watching the updates from this and the footage streaming in. So what exactly took place? Yeah, some of the most just Speaker 5 (3:19) incredible and graphic footage that you're ever going to see flooding social media yesterday. This all took place on Fly Dubai flight 1073. It's Speaker 3 (3:29) a Speaker 5 (3:29) Boeing 737 MAX that was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, most of whom were Israeli. About two hours into the flight, as the plane approached Israel, the Arab co-pilot from the country of Oman pulled out a knife and stabbed the captain, an Indian man. Flight tracking then showed the plane dropping 17,000 feet in less than two minutes. Passengers obviously were panicking and it sent out the transponder code signaling a hijacking incident to air traffic control. The Israeli Air Force scrambled fighter jets and had a secret security meeting. But by some miracle, the plane leveled out and landed safely in Saudi Arabia and everyone on board survived. And now we know that that miracle took place because of the heroic actions of folks on board. Speaker 6 (4:12) Right, and those heroic actions were carried out by passengers, correct? Speaker 5 (4:16) Yeah, that's right. So passengers say that they knew something was wrong when they began to hear screaming coming from the cockpit. Some passengers said they heard the words, Allahu Akbar, shouted out. And we now know that the co-pilot stabbed the pilot. while they were at cruising altitude and the heroic pilot, despite suffering severe injuries, was able to crawl to the door bloody of the cockpit and open up that door. And that is when passengers began rushing forward. A number of men can be seen on video just flying down the aisles to get to that cockpit. And some of the passengers said that once they got into the cockpit, they saw the co-pilot, quote, trying to destroy the controls in order to disable the plane. One passenger who met with Prime Minister