One pilot stabbed another pilot on a FlyDubai flight headed to Tel Aviv on Wednesday and may have tried to crash the plane before passengers and crew members subdued him, Israel's prime minister says. Transcript MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Passengers on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv are describing what happened on board a Flydubai airplane that caused them to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: The plane signaled a distress call on Wednesday after one of the pilots apparently stabbed the other pilot and seemed to be trying to crash the plane with everyone on board. Many of the passengers were Israelis, and officials in Israel are calling it an attempted terrorist attack, although the motive is still unknown.MARTIN: NPR's Kat Lonsdorf is with us now from Tel Aviv. Good morning, Kat.KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Hey. Good morning.MARTIN: It sounds like a really harrowing situation on...LONSDORF: Yeah.MARTIN: ...That plane. What can you tell us?LONSDORF: So, yeah, like you said, the plane was operated by Flydubai. That's an airline based in the UAE. There's still a lot we don't know, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put out a statement after speaking with some ...

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