{"id":25672100,"date":"2026-09-30T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/flydubai-fz1073-squawk-7500-hijack-alert-israeli-jets-tabuk-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:22:07","slug":"flydubai-fz1073-squawk-7500-hijack-alert-israeli-jets-tabuk-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/flydubai-fz1073-squawk-7500-hijack-alert-israeli-jets-tabuk-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"flydubai FZ1073: Co-Pilot Suspected of Trying to Crash Tel Aviv-Bound 737 MAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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According to Israeli officials, the first officer is now under investigation on suspicion of trying to crash the aircraft. The captain suffered serious stab wounds, and two off-duty pilots travelling as passengers, helped by cabin crew and passengers, forced their way into the cockpit and overpowered the first officer. Details below.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For about an hour on Wednesday morning, Israel thought it might have a hijacked airliner heading its way. flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Dubai to Tel Aviv with around 174 people on board, suddenly switched its transponder to the emergency code 7700, and then, seven minutes later, to 7500: the code a crew uses to signal unlawful interference with an aircraft. In plain language, a hijacking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/israeli-air-force\/\">Israeli Air Force<\/a> scrambled fighter jets. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz convened an urgent security meeting. The aircraft turned away from Israel, descended and landed at Tabuk in north-western Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then the story changed. Israeli officials said it was not a hijacking at all. According to Israeli security sources quoted by Israeli media and CNN, the alarm was set off by a violent altercation between the two pilots in the cockpit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6fa;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 28px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.75\"><li><strong>Flight:<\/strong> flydubai FZ1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv, 30 September 2026<\/li><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Boeing 737 MAX 8, reported as A6-FKF<\/li><li><strong>On board:<\/strong> About 174 people, including 27 children, according to Israeli media<\/li><li><strong>Codes:<\/strong> 7700 (general emergency) at 05:31 UTC, 7500 (unlawful interference) at 05:38 UTC<\/li><li><strong>Response:<\/strong> Israeli Air Force fighters scrambled; emergency security meeting<\/li><li><strong>Landed:<\/strong> Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, between about 06:45 and 07:00 UTC<\/li><li><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Violent fight in the cockpit; first officer under investigation on suspicion of trying to crash the aircraft<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How the morning unfolded<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The flight took off from Dubai International at 03:05 UTC, just after 7 a.m. local time, and was due at Ben Gurion around 9:30 Israel time. Flightradar24&rsquo;s tracking shows the squawk changing to 7700 at 05:31 UTC, about two and a half hours into the flight, and to 7500 at 05:38, while the jet was over Jordan and approaching Israeli airspace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2105192495529279734&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The aircraft then turned back towards Saudi Arabia, left ground-based tracking coverage and descended to around 15,000 feet. Israel&rsquo;s security establishment went to full alert. Reports that the pilots had stopped communicating normally with Israeli controllers only added to the tension.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The jet landed safely at Tabuk shortly before 10 a.m. Israel time. Shortly afterwards, the prime minister&rsquo;s office said the incident was not believed to be a hijacking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;We are preparing for every scenario.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Danny Levy<\/strong> &mdash; Israel Police Commissioner, during the incident, as quoted by Ynet<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What 7500 means, and why Israel reacted so fast<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Every airliner carries a transponder that broadcasts a four-digit code to air traffic control. Three codes are reserved for trouble: 7700 for a general emergency, 7600 for a radio failure and 7500 for unlawful interference. A crew that dials 7500 is telling the ground, silently, that someone else may be in control of the aircraft. Controllers are trained to treat it as real until proven otherwise.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>For Israel, which has lived with the threat of aircraft being used as weapons for half a century, a 7500 squawk on a flight approaching Tel Aviv is about as serious as a signal gets. Scrambling fighters to intercept and identify the aircraft is the standard response, and it is exactly what happened on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/tabuk-regional-airport-terminal-saudi-arabia.jpg\" alt=\"Terminal of Tabuk Regional Airport in Saudi Arabia\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The terminal at Tabuk Regional Airport in north-western Saudi Arabia, where FZ1073 landed after the alert. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What happened in the cockpit<\/h2>\n\n<p>As more detail emerged during the day, the &ldquo;fight between the pilots&rdquo; turned out to be something far more serious. According to The Aviation Herald, the Boeing 737 MAX 8, registration A6-FKF, was cruising at 34,000 feet about 130 nautical miles north-east of Tabuk when it dropped to around 19,000 feet in roughly 90 seconds. That is an extraordinarily steep descent for an airliner, far beyond anything a crew would fly deliberately in normal operations.<\/p>\n\n<p>Passengers described violent manoeuvring, a sudden dive and then chaos. Israeli media quoted passengers saying they heard screams as the aircraft dived. Several reported a physical fight in the cockpit and that one pilot had been attacked with a pocket knife. Video shared from the cabin shows a pilot with blood on his shirt being treated in the aisle and another man restrained on the floor, and a passenger can be heard calling for help and saying the attackers had been subdued.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to an Israeli official, two airline pilots travelling off duty as passengers, one a South African citizen and one from New Zealand, got into the cockpit together with cabin crew and passengers and pinned the attacker to the floor. Control of the aircraft was regained, it levelled off at around 15,000 feet and flew on to land safely at Tabuk about 85 minutes after leaving cruise altitude. It is not yet officially confirmed who flew the aircraft for the landing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Israel&rsquo;s Air Defense Forces said the captain is a citizen of the United Arab Emirates and the first officer an Omani citizen, and Israeli authorities have opened an investigation into the first officer amid growing indications that he tried to take control of the aircraft to crash it. Tabuk Airport said both pilots were taken to hospital with injuries, the captain with serious stab wounds. Photos taken after landing appear to show damage to the aircraft&rsquo;s rudder.<\/p>\n\n<p>flydubai confirmed that the emergency had been triggered by a fight between the pilots, said it was investigating and had informed the Israeli authorities, and sent another aircraft to Tabuk to collect the 174 passengers, 27 of them children. In Israel, Transportation Minister Miri Regev demanded that flydubai flights be suspended, and according to Hebrew media asked the Civil Aviation Authority to check whether the UAE had breached its aviation agreement with Israel, which reportedly allows only pilots from countries with diplomatic relations with Israel to fly into the country. Israel has no diplomatic relations with Oman. Israeli broadcaster Kan reported that the Mossad, the Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces and the Transportation Ministry are all involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What we still do not know<\/h2>\n\n<p>The most important question: why. No authority has published a motive, and early reports disagree on details, including which pilot attacked which and what exactly happened to the transponder codes. The first officer has not been charged, and investigators will now rely on the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder, the pilots themselves and the many passenger videos.<\/p>\n\n<p>If the suspicions are confirmed, FZ1073 would join a very short list of airliners a pilot tried to crash on purpose, alongside Germanwings 9525 in 2015, when the first officer locked the captain out of the cockpit. The difference this time is that the cockpit door did not keep help out. We will update this story as official findings emerge.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources: Flightradar24, Ynet, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Reuters (via Cyprus Mail), CNN, Calcalist, The Aviation Herald, Tabuk Airport, flydubai<\/em><\/p>\n\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\r\n\r\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What happened to flydubai flight FZ1073?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On 30 September 2026, flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv transmitted emergency code 7700 and then hijack code 7500 over Jordan. Israel scrambled fighter jets, and the Boeing 737 MAX 8 diverted and landed safely at Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the co-pilot try to crash the flydubai plane?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">That is what investigators are examining. Israeli authorities have opened an investigation into the first officer amid indications that he tried to take control of the Boeing 737 MAX and crash it, and the aircraft descended from 34,000 feet to about 19,000 feet in roughly 90 seconds during the struggle. As of 30 September 2026 no official finding had been published, and neither flydubai nor the Saudi or UAE authorities had confirmed a motive.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was flydubai FZ1073 hijacked?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Not by outsiders. The hijack code 7500 was set during a violent fight between the two pilots in the cockpit, flydubai has confirmed. The captain suffered serious stab wounds and the first officer was overpowered by off-duty pilots, cabin crew and passengers, and is now under investigation on suspicion of trying to crash the aircraft.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who stopped the attack on flydubai FZ1073?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">According to an Israeli official, two off-duty airline pilots travelling as passengers, one from South Africa and one from New Zealand, forced their way into the cockpit together with cabin crew and passengers and restrained the first officer. Control of the aircraft was regained and it landed safely at Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What does squawk 7500 mean?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Squawk 7500 is the transponder code a flight crew selects to signal unlawful interference with the aircraft, usually meaning a hijacking. Air traffic controllers treat it as genuine until proven otherwise, which is why a 7500 code often leads to a fighter jet intercept.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did Israel scramble fighter jets for the flydubai flight?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The flydubai flight was approaching Israeli airspace when it switched to the hijack code 7500. Israel treats a possible hijacked airliner heading towards Tel Aviv as a severe threat, so the Israeli Air Force scrambled fighters and the government convened an urgent security meeting.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where did flydubai FZ1073 land?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Flydubai FZ1073 diverted away from Israel and landed safely at Tabuk in north-western Saudi Arabia shortly before 10 a.m. Israel time on 30 September 2026. 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