Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

FlyDubai co-pilot attacked commander, had prior extremism ban

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 28h ago
Closed
Outlets: 3
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

The Japan Times Japan · English 5 Oct, 00:31 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · +1 language

Read at The Japan Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: ORF, 3 Oct, 05:29 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with Vedomosti.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Japan Times.
Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

ORF 3 Oct, 05:29 UTC
Vedomosti +24h 31m
The Japan Times +43h 2m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: FlyDubai pilot foils cockpit attack during flight, 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2026, 30 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 1 public-service, 2 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Japan. Europe 2: Austria, Russia. 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: German, English, Russian.
Timeline: Earliest article ORF, 3 Oct 2026, 05:29 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 05:30 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 03:42 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: 0.01, as of now. 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: Continues FlyDubai pilot foils cockpit attack during flight. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 05:30 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 03:42 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

The Japan Times Japan 5 Oct, 00:31 UTC
Flydubai co-pilot lost earlier job for dabbling in extremism

Europe 2 outlets

Vedomosti Russia 5 Oct, 03:42 UTC
WSJ: Оман не сообщил Flydubai о радикальных взглядах пилота
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Напавший на командира FlyDubai потерял прежнюю работу из-за связи с экстремизмом 4 Oct, 06:00 UTC
ORF Austria 3 Oct, 05:29 UTC
Bericht über früheres Flugverbot für Flydubai-Kopiloten