# Blood at 35,000 feet: possible hijacking attempt on flight to Israel **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-35-000-feet-possible-hijacking-attempt-on-flight-to-israel/1033484 "2026-09-30T11:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-35-000-feet-possible-hijacking-attempt-on-flight-to-israel/1033484/3 "2026-09-30T12:33:24Z")
> [@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)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-2/1030892/476): > > 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, … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-35-000-feet-possible-hijacking-attempt-on-flight-to-israel/1033484)._