Breaking: Hijacking Fears After Israel-Bound Flight Diverted to Saudi Arabia

And straight to a Fox News alert, a serious scare in the skies over the Middle East. Possible disaster averted as a bloody brawl breaks out in the cockpit during a pack flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Jeff Paul joins us live from Tel Aviv with what we know so far. Good morning, Jeff. Well, yeah, good morning. And at the moment, we know everyone who was on board that plane after it was diverted to Saudi Arabia is safe. But what is unclear is what led to that emergency call from inside the cockpit that then forced Israel to then scramble fighter jets in the fears that that plane had been hijacked. Now, there are a lot of different accounts from passengers who were on board that plane, but one telling us that they believe the copilot of the fly Dubai flight FZ 1073 stabbed the captain of the plane, who then collapsed onto the controls that then shut down the entire instrument panel. According to this witness, the passenger says the plane then began plunging downward for several minutes. There was a lot of screaming. And at one point, the power went out and they thought they were going to die. The mother of one of those passengers saying this, my daughter, she's she's wasn't on the flight to from Dubai to Israel, and she called me now, maybe 20 minutes ago, and she told me she was thinking she's going to all the people, the scream, the things they are going. Now, we know the plane was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv this morning after flying for about two and a half hours, the plane signaled an emergency on board while entering Jordanian airspace. That's when it abruptly descended from thirty three thousand feet to seventeen thousand feet and then made an erratic circle before turning towards Saudi Arabia, where it eventually landed safely. Now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office put out a statement saying that the situation is now under control and they are working to get everyone back home. But what is the big question out there is what led to this altercation on the plane between these two pilots? And what was the intention of this incident? Back to you guys. Jeff, I'm reading. It's it was a fly Dubai plane, which is the lower cost sister carrier of the Emirates airplane. UAE apparently has become a really popular vacation destination for people in Israel. The tourists in Israel, since the countries have normalized ties since twenty twenty. I understand you have actually taken this flight. It goes from Dubai to Israel. What was security like for you and how did did I know the pilot was stabbed, I assume with a knife. How did that person get through security with a knife? Yeah, these are all major questions we have right now, because just hearing about this in a domestic setting, a pilot possibly stabbing another pilot is very, very scary. But then when you think about the region here and what that means, the sort of implications and the escalation that this would involve if there was some sort of terrorism involved would just amp up this region that is already very amped up because of the ongoing conflicts in the region. But I can tell you flying on this plane multiple times, it's it's great. I mean, everyone's very professional. It's very safe. They don't let everyone just into the gated area even before you board the plane as an extra safety precaution. You get on buses that then take you out to the plane. So there's no tunnel to get onto the plane. It definitely feels like there's an extra added level of security when you fly this plane to Tel Aviv. But most of the times it's it's a nice three hour flight. It's very quiet. Everyone's happy to get back to Tel Aviv and it usually ends with no incident. In this case, obviously something went terribly wrong. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full show streaming now on Fox one.