A plane heading from Dubai to Tel Aviv, with about 150 passengers on board, sent the code used when hijacking planes.
Air Force warplanes were summoned, while the aircraft changed their course towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Contact with the plane was lost, and it was not allowed to land at Ben Gurion Airport.
Channel 12: The pilots did not contact air traffic control services in either Israel or Jordan. Later, the crew sent a distress signal again.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Israel Katz hold emergency security consultations with the leaders of the security services regarding the “Fly Dubai” plane.
Army Radio: The latest estimates in Israel currently indicate that this may not be a security incident, but rather another exceptional incident that occurred on board the plane.
Israel Hayom: The plane appeared again on the plane tracking app.
Channel 14: The talk is about a quarrel between the pilots that led to the emergency code being activated by mistake.
The plane landed at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Airport, near the city of Tabuk in northern Saudi Arabia.
Netanyahu spokesman: The incident related to the “Fly Dubai” plane is not a hijacking.
Emirati company Flydubai: Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv was involved in an accident while flying, and it landed safely in the Saudi city of Tabuk. All passengers are fine.
Channel 14: One of the Flydubai pilots tried to commit suicide and the other prevented him, which led to a dispute and a sharp argument between them.
Israeli journalist Hillel Biton Rosen: One of the pilots attempted suicide, and carried out a sharp descent from an altitude of 30,000 feet at a speed of approximately Mach one, reaching an altitude of 15,000 feet in a short time. The second pilot prevented this during a conflict between them.
Broadcasting Authority: Israeli authorities are examining the possibility that one of the pilots attempted to hijack the plane for political reasons and the second pilot tried to control him.
Israeli official: Doubts are growing that the incident was an attempted terrorist attack. A massive catastrophe has been averted, and the co-pilot is being questioned, while indications mount that he intended to take control of the plane and bring it down with all its passengers on board.
Due to concerns about the possibility of a wider incident, all Flydubai flights landing at Ben Gurion Airport are currently being isolated at a remote location and subjected to security checks.
100Shetach: There were additional flight crew on board as part of routine training. They were traveling on the plane as civilians. They were the ones who commanded the plane and its landing in Tabuk.
Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir cancels his scheduled visit to the United States due to the state of high alert and the sensitive security situation.
Israeli official: Controlling the incident was a stroke of luck, otherwise we would have faced an incident similar to the September 11 attacks.
An Israeli military source: The pilot who attempted suicide was of Omani nationality and was the co-pilot, and was prevented by an Emirati who was the captain of the plane.
El Al offered to operate a rescue flight to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first of its kind in the company's history.
Israeli Broadcasting Corporation: A Flydubai plane left Dubai for Saudi Arabia to transport passengers stranded there.
Following an assessment of the situation conducted by the commanders of the Israeli army, the Shin Bet, and the Mossad, the prevailing assessment is that the incident that occurred on board the Fly Dubai flight was an act of terrorism.
Netanyahu was heading to southern Israel when the incident occurred, and upon receiving the report, his convoy returned to the center to attend another urgent security discussion.
Israel is investigating how an Omani pilot obtained approval to fly to Tel Aviv.
Scenes from the Flydubai plane as it landed safely in Tabuk
Video clip of the Flydubai pilot who was stabbed
Testimonies of Flydubai passengers: The terrorist was neutralized and the pilot was seriously injured
"Yedioth Ahronoth": Another flight heading from Dubai to Tel Aviv returns to Dubai and is halfway there. The plane completed its course after it was discovered that it had suffered a technical malfunction.
