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🗞️ Story file #87

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

Oct 5, 7 AM ET to Oct 5, 8 PM ET

👣 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 5, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: Independent Journal Review
  2. Oct 5, 10 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 7 AM to Oct 5, 8 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 4, 12 PM6 PMOct 56 AM12 PM6 PMThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 3, 11:01 PM ET: Co-pilot’s time in Australia being investigated by security agencies after alleged cockpit attackBBCBBCBBC, Oct 4, 3:01 AM ET: Australia investigating Flydubai co-pilot's links to countryFinancial TimesFinancial TimesFinancial Times, Oct 4, 8:00 AM ET: Australian authorities probe Flydubai attacker’s links to countryReutersReutersReuters, Oct 4, 8:00 PM ET: Australia probes flydubai co-pilot's links to the country, police say - reuters.comNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 4, 11:00 PM ET: Australia Opens Terror Probe Into FlyDubai Co-Pilot’s LinksIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 5, 7:10 AM ET: Counterterrorism Probe Examines Co-Pilot’s Australia TiesNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 5, 10:00 AM ET: Australia Launches Probe into FlyDubai Co-pilot’s Past, and Other Mideast News
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 (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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.

🧶 Retelling

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: Australia Flydubai

🔎 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 terror probe

  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 (this story)

    Oct 5, 7 AM ET

Rebuilt every hour from the front pages of the outlets we follow.
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