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UAE co-pilot planned to crash plane into Israeli airport

Oct 9, 5 PM ET to Oct 9, 5 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏4 · 3 · 3🐘left · center · right
1 houron the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
4 of 4parts of a saga

👣 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.

Oct 9, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 9, 5 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Greatest Possible Number of Casualties”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 11 attacks

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Co-pilot planned suicide attack on Israeli airport, UAE prosecutors say Oct 9, 5 PM ET
CNN Alleged Flydubai hijacker said 9/11 attacks spurred him to become a pilot, early investigation finds Oct 9, 3 PM ET
Mediaite Authorities Say Flydubai Hijacker Was Inspired by 9/11 Attacks and Wanted: ‘Greatest Possible Number of Casualties’ Oct 9, 3 PM ET
New York Times Attacker in FlyDubai Flight Meant to Crash Into Israeli Airport, Emiratis Say Oct 9, 4 PM ET
Bloomberg FlyDubai Co-Pilot Scoped Out Tel Aviv Twice Before Attack Oct 9, 3 PM ET
News Nation Alleged Flydubai hijacker inspired by 9/11 attacks: Investigation Oct 9, 5 PM ET
Reuters UAE says Omani flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv flight Oct 9, 3 PM ET
Washington Examiner Flydubai hijacker planned to crash plane into Ben Gurion Airport, UAE says Oct 9, 4 PM ET
IJR UAE prosecutors say Omani co-pilot tried to crash Flydubai jet into Tel Aviv Oct 9, 4 PM ET
New York Post Flydubai co-pilot was inspired by 9/11 when he planned to crash into Israeli airport terminal: officials Oct 9, 4 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

what people online made of it

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

🗣️ names in it: FlyDubai Oman Tel Aviv Israel

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Flydubai co-pilot suicide attack

FlyDubai co-pilot attacked captain with crash axe in attempted terrorist attack
Oct 2, 5 PM ET
Australian authorities investigate Flydubai co-pilot's ties to country
Oct 5, 7 AM ET
FlyDubai co-pilot had flight training in New Zealand
Oct 7, 6 AM ET
UAE co-pilot planned to crash plane into Israeli airport (this story)
Oct 9, 5 PM ET