The flydubai rescue flight carrying passengers from Saudi Arabia has landed at Ben Gurion Airport.

The flydubai rescue flight carrying passengers from Saudi Arabia has landed at Ben Gurion Airport.

The plane is carrying about 180 passengers, most of them Israelis, who were on an earlier flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

It is suspected that the co-pilot of the earlier flight stabbed the pilot in a suspected attempt to destroy the plane, which then made an emergency landing at Tabuk Airport in Saudi Arabia.