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Flydubai cockpit altercation leads to emergency landing in Tabuk

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
5
Languages
4

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964media Iraq · English 30 Sept, 15:56 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Čeština (1) · Español (1) · Português (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 47 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: CNN Brasil, 30 Sept, 15:54 UTC.
  2. Second country: Iraq, with 964media.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with 964media.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 15:54 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 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

29%43%14%14%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 1 country · 43%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. CNN Brasil 30 Sept, 15:54 UTC
  2. 964media +2m
  3. Infobae +11h 6m
  4. The Hindu +16h 29m
  5. Times of India +36h 42m

Last to join

  1. The Indian Express 2 Oct, 14:34 UTC
  2. Seznam Zprávy 2 Oct, 12:50 UTC
  3. Times of India 2 Oct, 04:37 UTC
  4. The Hindu 1 Oct, 08:24 UTC
  5. Infobae 1 Oct, 03:00 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Argentina, Brazil. Asia-Pacific 1: India. Europe 1: Czechia. Middle East 1: Iraq. 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
Czech, English, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article CNN Brasil, 30 Sept 2026, 15:54 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 16:00 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 14:34 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, Saudi Arabia. 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 Újabb részletek derültek ki a flydubai-járat vérfagyasztó másodperceiről; Like a ‘vertical roller coaster’: Simulating flight FZ1073’s sudden plunge. 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
2 Oct 2026 348 3.29 7 5 3 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 16:00 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 14:34 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • Infobae Argentina 1 Oct, 03:00 UTC
    Pánico y heroísmo en un vuelo de FlyDubai
  • CNN Brasil Brazil 30 Sept, 15:54 UTC
    “Homem louco” e “muito sangue”: os relatos dos passageiros da Flydubai

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • The Indian Express India 2 Oct, 14:34 UTC
    Interactive: Flydubai cockpit incident, Smit Machchhar and the story so far
  • Times of India India 2 Oct, 04:37 UTC
    'Is there doctor? Extra pilot?' New video shows passengers rushing to flydubai cockpit
  • The Hindu India 1 Oct, 08:24 UTC
    Flydubai passengers recount frantic mid-air emergency

Europe 1 outlet

  • Seznam Zprávy Czechia 2 Oct, 12:50 UTC
    Syrové záběry z letu Flydubai. Cestující zachytila strach o život i euforii

Middle East 1 outlet

  • 964media Iraq 30 Sept, 15:56 UTC
    دماء داخل طائرة "فلاي دبي".. مشاهد تكشف آثار شجار انتهى بهبوط اضطراري في تبوك
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