🧵 Saga file #4
FlyDubai co-pilot terror probe
Oct 2, 5 PM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 47outlets carried a part
- 🫏17 · 12 · 17🐘left · center · right
- 4 daysrunning so far
- 47 minof TV captions
- 13radio newscasts
- 19people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 2, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 4 daysFlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack
- Oct 5, 7 AM ET · on the front pages 13 hoursAustralian authorities investigate Flydubai co-pilot's ties to country
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🧩 The parts
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1. FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack
Oct 2, 5 PM ET · 47 outlets · on the front pages 4 days · 🔴 now
“FlyDubai flight passenger details treating wounded pilot after tying up suspect” first: ABC News, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Fox News, NBC News, New York Post, Newsmax, PBS NewsHour, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Time, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Yahoo News
📺 BBC News 17 min, CNN 17 min, Fox News 13 min · 📻 13 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 19
2. Australian authorities investigate Flydubai co-pilot's ties to country
Oct 5, 7 AM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 13 hours
“Co-pilot’s time in Australia being investigated by security agencies after alleged cockpit attack” first: The Guardian
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- A FlyDubai co-pilot attempted to take control of a plane and crash it into Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport after attacking the captain with a crash axe. told by 13 people, on “FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack”
- An Omani co-pilot attempted to hijack a FlyDubai flight and planned to crash it into Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. told by 6 people, on “FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack”