"Passengers aboard Flydubai Flight 1073 helped avert catastrophe, while major Western outlets described the cockpit attack in strikingly neutral terms."
The American Spectator
"So the people we rely upon to tell us the news dragged their feet on one of the biggest stories of the year, because Israelis saved the day."
"Thanks to the tenacity, bravery, and ingenuity of some everyman Israeli passengers, we’ll remember Sept. 30 as just another day, rather than another 9/11. But it came close. Last Wednesday, a routine Dubai-Tel Aviv flight was menaced when a co-pilot stabbed his captain and commenced a wrenching nosedive that saw the aircraft lose nearly three miles of altitude in around a minute. Quick-thinking Israeli travelers stormed the cockpit, subdued the attacker, righted the plane, and likely saved 174 lives.
"However, you might have missed these details if you’d been following along in conventional media. The story reached American and British front pages hours after Israeli ones, including Israeli outlets reporting in English such as the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel. Even then, per the BBC and the New York Times, what occurred on FlyDubai flight 1073 was only a “fight” or “altercation” between pilots. Nothing to worry about. Note their stories were published hours after the plane reported an alert code signaling “unlawful interference,” meaning hijacking or hostage-taking — facts reflected in Israeli media within minutes. "Many more examples abound, from CNN and The Washington Post to Sky News and The Guardian: outlets waited as long as they could to begin using terms like “stabbing” and “hijacking.” For hours they further couched their coverage as mere reporting of Israeli statements, wrapping headlines in language such as “Netanyahu says” — introducing needless and wholly avoidable skepticism. Some employed this terminology even after witnesses had landed in Saudi Arabia and had begun speaking as primary sources to international media. "What’s going on? Since being first to press is industry currency, why wouldn’t major outlets want to land on the most sensational story possible as soon as it’s verified?
"The answer gets to an uncomfortable truth about the intersection between modern journalism, politics, and culture. In contrast to the golden age of Western broadcasting, where “the most trusted man in America” would report the news straight to millions of people, today it is more often the tail of opinion wagging the dog of media — in which journalists’ own perspectives (and perceptions of the perspectives of their audiences) increasingly color their coverage. Research on this phenomenon is limited but growing." . . . More. MSNOW: BREAKING: Dubai flight to Israel diverted after cockpit incident
MSNOW: Attacker’s motive remains unknown after FlyDubai flight to Israel escapes disaster
"Veteran Pilot Startles Leftist Interviewer With the Truth About the Dubai Hijacking – PJ Media "The establishment media does its level best to obscure the motivating ideology behind jihad violence, and to exonerate Islam from all responsibility for the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. Occasionally, however, the truth gets through by accident, as in a recent interview Australia’s News 24 conducted about the attempted jihadist hijacking of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.
"News 24 was interviewing a veteran pilot, Captain Byron Bailey. The interviewer opened the door to the truth being told when she asked him how the whole thing had happened. Bailey responded:
Yeah, I'm not really surprised with Flydubai, operating Dubai to Tel Aviv, and with Muslim pilots, or not all Muslim, but — the captain was Indian. He was the real hero in this I've flown in and out of Tel Aviv with the British airline a lot. I also flew many times out of Dubai, so I'm fairly aware of the whole situation.
But how deep do you want to go into it? Because I, I hear, them saying, “Oh, we wonder what the motive is.” Well, excuse me, in Du— in the Middle East, the motive is, the fact that Islam calls for the death of Jews. All Jews. It's part of the core belief of Islam. This whole commission, this joke they had in Australia recently about antisemitism, just ignores the reality of what is the core belief of Islam that all Jews must die until the world becomes pure, free of Jews.
"At this point, the interviewer, sensing that this interview had spun wildly out of her control, tried to rein Bailey in, interjecting “Okay—” But the indomitable old captain blandly continued:
But this was actually probably an act of religious devotion where the guy took the advantage of the fact that he could kill Jews and martyr himself in the process, because that's what they want to do." . . . More.
