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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #179

FlyDubai co-pilot had flight training in New Zealand

Oct 7, 6 AM ET to Oct 7, 9 AM ET

πŸ‘£ How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 7, 6 AM ETfirst on a front page: News Nation
  2. Oct 7, 6 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 6 AM to Oct 7, 9 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 6, 12 PM6 PMOct 76 AMReutersReutersReuters, Oct 6, 4:00 AM ET: Flydubai co-pilot completed portion of his flight training in New Zealand, police saysFinancial TimesFinancial TimesFinancial Times, Oct 6, 5:00 AM ET: Flydubai attacker received flight training in New ZealandThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 6, 5:00 PM ET: Flydubai Co-Pilot Had Flight Training in New Zealand, Police SayBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 6, 8:00 PM ET: FlyDubai Co-Pilot Trained to Fly in the UK, Telegraph SaysThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 7, 3:00 AM ET: Flydubai attack investigation widens as alleged hijacker’s training in New Zealand scrutinisedNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 7, 6:00 AM ET: FlyDubai co-pilot did part of his flight training in New Zealand: Police
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

πŸŽ™οΈ Shows, investigators, satire

πŸŽ™οΈ πŸŽ™οΈ BBC Global News Podcast πŸŽ™οΈ Up First (NPR)

🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

πŸ¦— Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: FlyDubai New Zealand Telegraph Flydubai

πŸ”Ž Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧡 Flydubai co-pilot suicide attack

  1. FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack

    Oct 2, 5 PM ET

  2. Australian authorities investigate Flydubai co-pilot's ties to country

    Oct 5, 7 AM ET

  3. FlyDubai co-pilot had flight training in New Zealand (this story)

    Oct 7, 6 AM ET

  4. UAE co-pilot planned to crash plane into Israeli airport

    Oct 9, 5 PM ET