Blood at 35,000 feet: possible hijacking attempt on flight to Israel

[LSLGuy]

@Alessan

I posted this in the Aviation thread, but I think it deserves a thread of its own.

For those curious, @Alessan’s cite and following discussion starts here:

The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 2)

And now for some airline shenanigans in the most laid-back part of the world: A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, while passing over Jordanian airspace, lost altitude without warning and issued the hijacking distress alert. This put the local authorities in a bit of a tizzy, with the Israeli Air Force scrambling fighter jets to intercept. The plane turned around, meandered over the Saudi desert for a while at low altitude, before landing in Tabuk, SA. Details are unclear at this point, …