Trump praises a passenger who helped control the Flydubai plane and expects the war with Iran to end soon
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US President Donald Trump said that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the attempted hijacking of a Flydubai plane, and praised the actions of a passenger who helped regain control of the plane despite his lack of flying experience, and repeated his prediction that the war with Iran will end soon, whether through negotiations or the use of force.
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Why It Matters
Trump's statements come in the context of his repeated expectations of a near end to the war with Iran, which has entered its seventh month, and in the wake of reports of an attempt to hijack a Flydubai plane on which passengers were trying to control the situation.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the attempted hijacking of a Flydubai plane, describing passengers' efforts to control the attacker as "absolutely astonishing."
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: “It appears that the co-pilot may have been a terrorist,” adding that “Netanyahu told him that he believed the hijacker was planning to crash the plane.”
Trump also praised the actions of a passenger who was credited with helping to regain control of the plane despite having no experience in flying planes. He said about that passenger: “He had never flown a plane, and rarely traveled by air, and even though he had never flown a plane before, he grabbed the control stick, raised it up, and adjusted the plane’s position so that it was level before it crashed.”
The US President expressed his great admiration for the passenger's explanation that he knew what to do because he was watching the program "Air Disasters," adding that he personally did not like watching this program "because bad things happen in it."
"But he said he watches it a lot, and he kind of learned how to fly from watching that show. I think that's pretty amazing," Trump said.
Regarding the war on Iran, Trump indicated again that he expected it to end “soon, whether through negotiations or the use of force.”
“You might blow them up,” he said. “We have to make that decision: Do we blow them up or do we make a deal? But the time has come. The war will end very soon, one way or another.”
Earlier in his remarks, he indicated that the war with Iran would end “soon,” and he expected fuel prices to fall quickly soon afterward.
Trump's statements are the latest example of his prediction that the seven-month-old war "will end soon."
Earlier this week, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, "We're going to win; from my perspective, it's going to be over one way or another, and it's going to be over very quickly."
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The war with Iran will end soon, either through negotiations or the use of military force
Likely · Within weeks
Open Questions
- What is the identity and nationality of the passenger who helped control the plane?
- What are the details of the kidnapping attempt and the identity of the suspect?
- Will negotiations with Iran continue, or will Trump move toward the military option?
