Pilot on Israel-bound flight stabbed another, tried to crash, Netanyahu says

A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew staged a dramatic intervention to subdue the attacker and the plane eventually made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The FlyDubai flight traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed safely after issuing an emergency alert and abruptly descending thousands of feet (meters). But the episode prompted Israel to scramble warplanes because it raised concerns about a possible hijacking of the plane.Netanyahu said that Saudi Arabia had arrested a pilot of the flight.Video footage circulating on social media and reviewed by The Associated Press shows two men on the floor of the plane, with bloody wounds. Two people appear to be providing emergency medical treatment, while two others guard the cockpit. “We are guarding the pilot,” one person says in Hebrew. In another video, passengers weep and cry out in distress as the aircraft shakes. Story continues below advertisement The plane’s captain and the first officer were injured and taken to the hospital, according to a statement from the Prince Sulta...