Panic aboard flight FZ1073 to Tel Aviv: ‘We’ve just neutralized the terrorist. We need help’

One pilot stabbed the hijacker and passengers manage to avert a disaster. Israel will step up screening of pilots flying to the country following what the government descibed as an ‘attempted jihadist terror attack’
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