Trump on flydubai incident: ‘I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu at length’; co-pilot may have been terrorist

US President Donald Trump said he spoke at length with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Flydubai incident, describing the co-pilot as possibly a terrorist or a whack job who stabbed the pilot. Trump recounted that an Israeli passenger, a plumber who had never flown a plane, entered the cockpit, pulled the co-pilot out, and leveled the plane after learning basic flying from the TV show Air Disasters. Trump cautioned that this was the story he heard, not independently confirmed.

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he spoke at length with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the dramatic incident aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Israel. Trump told reporters the co-pilot may have been a terrorist or a whack job who stabbed the pilot. According to Trump's account, the pilot was badly wounded but managed to open the cockpit door. An Israeli passenger, a plumber who had never flown a plane, entered the cockpit, pulled the co-pilot out, and leveled the plane after learning basic flying from the TV show Air Disasters. Trump repeatedly cautioned that this was the story he heard, not independently confirmed facts. The incident involved a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.