️🇮🇱🇦🇪 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the incident on board the FlyDubai flight was an attempted jihadist attack, and that the attacker intended to destroy the plane with all the passengers on board.

️🇮🇱🇦🇪 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the incident on board the FlyDubai flight was an attempted jihadist attack, and that the attacker intended to destroy the plane with all the passengers on board.

Several Israeli passengers broke into the cockpit, took control of the attacker and transferred control of the plane to another flight crew on board. He added that the incident was avoided only because of their actions.