A Flight Heading To Israel Had To Do An Emergency Landing. Officials Are Calling It a Hijacking Attempt.

Source: International Business Times

Israeli officials claimed an incident above a Flydubai flight was an attempted hijacking by one of the pilots. Getty Images A Flydubai passenger plane heading to Israel had to perform an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after going through an incident that an Israeli official described as an attempted hijacking by one of the pilots. The official told the Jerusalem Post that a "major disaster was narrowly avoided.