Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

Flydubai co-pilot attacked captain with axe in alleged terrorist plot

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 57
Regions: 5
Countries: 37
Languages: 16

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NDTV India · English 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC

The earliest of 32 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (5) · +14 languages

Read at NDTV

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: NDTV, 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Fastest hour: +29 outlets from 3 Oct, 06:40 UTC.
Last article: 57 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 37 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

21%49%12%

Africa 4 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 9%
Asia-Pacific 12 outlets · 8 countries · 21%
Europe 28 outlets · 17 countries · 49%
Middle East 7 outlets · 6 countries · 12%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

NDTV 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Hindustan Times +45m
The Independent +13h 37m
The Express Tribune +42h 31m
CGTN +45h 28m

Last to join

HVG 3 Oct, 08:33 UTC
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 3 Oct, 08:30 UTC
KBC 3 Oct, 08:26 UTC
Shafaq News 3 Oct, 08:25 UTC
RTP 3 Oct, 08:20 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 57 outlets in 37 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 57 outlets, 4 state-owned, 6 public-service, 47 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Kenya, Nigeria. Americas 3: Argentina, Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 8: Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan. Europe 17: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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: Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article NDTV, 1 Oct 2026, 08:35 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 08:40 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 08:33 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 co-pilot attacks captain with axe in suspected terrorist act; Axe-wielding FlyDubai co-pilot had been flagged over extremism concerns. 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

3 Oct 2026 50 14.59 56 36 56 36 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 08:40 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 08:33 UTC

Covered by 57 outlets

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Covered by 57 outlets

Africa 4 outlets

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 12 outlets

Europe 28 outlets

Middle East 7 outlets

International 1 outlet