Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

Indian pilot fights off copilot in FlyDubai cockpit attack

Rank
Ran: 42h
Updated: 3d ago
Final
Outlets: 39
Regions: 5
Countries: 27
Languages: 13

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The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 1 Oct, 01:25 UTC

The earliest of 25 English reports

Read it also in Lietuvių (2) · +11 languages

Read at The Express Tribune

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Express Tribune, 1 Oct, 01:25 UTC.
Second country: India, with Hindustan Times.
Second region: Middle East, with Gulf News.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 2 Oct, 09:04 UTC.
Last article: 39 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 27 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

49%28%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 5%
Americas 2 outlets · 1 country · 5%
Asia-Pacific 19 outlets · 12 countries · 49%
Europe 11 outlets · 9 countries · 28%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 8%
International 2 outlets · 5%

First movers

The Express Tribune 1 Oct, 01:25 UTC
Hindustan Times +17m
NDTV +41m
Gulf News +1h 30m
Al-Monitor +2h 21m

Last to join

RTP 2 Oct, 20:40 UTC
SVT 2 Oct, 17:39 UTC
Observador 2 Oct, 17:32 UTC
Deutsche Welle 2 Oct, 17:15 UTC
Detik 2 Oct, 15:45 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 39 outlets in 27 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 39 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 public-service, 33 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Nigeria, South Africa. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 12: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan. Europe 9: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Israel, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Danish, Greek, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai, Uzbek.
Timeline: Earliest article The Express Tribune, 1 Oct 2026, 01:25 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 02:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 20:40 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Middle East, United Arab Emirates. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by flydubai attack: Dubai Crown Prince praises Indian pilot Machchhar; Flydubai co-pilot prayed before attacking Indian pilot Smit Machchhar; ‘Everyone is proud’: Smit Machchhar's family lauds him after flydubai incident; "אמיץ באופן יוצא דופן": כל השבחים שמקבל הטייס שהציל את טיסת פליי דובאי. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

1 Oct 2026 63 15.59 18 10 18 10 4.0

2 Oct 2026 22 29.46 38 26 29 21 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 02:30 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 20:40 UTC

Covered by 39 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

IOL South Africa 2 Oct, 10:00 UTC
Was chanting 'Hanuman Chalisa': Pilot Machchhar recounts cockpit fightback to Modi
Vanguard Nigeria 2 Oct, 09:25 UTC
‘I could not let all those people die’ — Indian pilot recounts flydubai ordeal

Americas 2 outlets

Fox News United States 2 Oct, 13:52 UTC
Hero FlyDubai pilot says he was 'fighting for my life' as plane plunged after copilot attack
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- FlyDubai pilot showed world 'the highest form of courage,' India's PM says 1 Oct, 15:52 UTC
CBS News United States 2 Oct, 12:42 UTC
Hero pilot describes FlyDubai stabbing and fight for survival

Asia-Pacific 19 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
1 Oct 2026	63	15.59	18	10	18	10	4.0
2 Oct 2026	22	29.46	38	26	29	21	4.0

Covered by 39 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 19 outlets

Europe 11 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets

International 2 outlets