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FlyDubai pilot stabbed during flight to Tel Aviv

Rank
Ran
27h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
1

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Emisoras Unidas Guatemala · Spanish 1 Oct, 03:00 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 6 reports

Read at Emisoras Unidas

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 40 hours.

2 4 6
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Emisoras Unidas, 1 Oct, 03:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: Spain, with El País.
  3. Second region: Europe, with El País.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 18:41 UTC.
  5. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

41 of 41 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

83%17%

  • Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 83%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

  1. Emisoras Unidas 1 Oct, 03:00 UTC
  2. El País +15h 42m
  3. La Tercera +15h 58m
  4. Prensa Libre +17h 53m
  5. El Financiero +36h 32m

Last to join

  1. El Colombiano 2 Oct, 19:18 UTC
  2. El Financiero 2 Oct, 15:32 UTC
  3. Prensa Libre 1 Oct, 20:52 UTC
  4. La Tercera 1 Oct, 18:57 UTC
  5. El País 1 Oct, 18:41 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 4: Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico. Europe 1: Spain. 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
Spanish.
Timeline
Earliest article Emisoras Unidas, 1 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 16:10 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 19:18 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.
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
2 Oct 2026 248 4.73 6 5 2 2 4.0

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Started 1 Oct, 16:10 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 19:18 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 5 outlets

  • El Colombiano Colombia 2 Oct, 19:18 UTC
    Piloto apuñalado de Flydubai contó desde el hospital cómo sobrevivió en la cabina: “No podía dejar que todos murieran”
  • El Financiero Mexico 2 Oct, 15:32 UTC
    Piloto indio de avión que iba a ser secuestrado relata lucha en la cabina: ‘Si no me levantaba, moriríamos’
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala 1 Oct, 20:52 UTC
    Quién es el capitán Smit Machchhar, el piloto indio apuñalado en un vuelo con destino a Israel al que califican de héroe
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • Quién es el capitán Smit Machchhar, el piloto indio apuñalado en un vuelo con destino a Israel al que califican de héroe 1 Oct, 20:52 UTC
    • Quién es el capitán Smit Machchhar, el piloto indio apuñalado en un vuelo con destino a Israel al que califican de héroe 1 Oct, 20:52 UTC
  • La Tercera Chile 1 Oct, 18:57 UTC
    ¿Quién es Smit Machchhar, el piloto indio apuñalado que según Israel frustró un atentado en un vuelo de Flydubai?
  • Emisoras Unidas Guatemala 1 Oct, 03:00 UTC
    ¿Quién es el piloto indio apuñalado durante incidente de seguridad en pleno vuelo?

Europe 1 outlet

  • El País Spain 1 Oct, 18:41 UTC
    ¿Quién es Smit Machchhar, el piloto de FlyDubai apuñalado en un vuelo a Tel Aviv?
Read at Emisoras Unidas

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