Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

Flydubai co-pilot attacked captain in cockpit incident

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 14h ago
Closed
Outlets: 69
Regions: 5
Countries: 43
Languages: 22

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: 15min, 3 Oct, 08:36 UTC.
Second country: Serbia, with Blic.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Dân Trí.
Fastest hour: +20 outlets from 3 Oct, 08:36 UTC.
Last article: 69 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 43 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

12%33%36%

Africa 6 outlets · 4 countries · 9%
Americas 8 outlets · 3 countries · 12%
Asia-Pacific 23 outlets · 14 countries · 33%
Europe 25 outlets · 17 countries · 36%
Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 7%
International 2 outlets · 3%

First movers

15min 3 Oct, 08:36 UTC
Blic +2m
Dân Trí +3m
Anadolu Agency +4m
Le Soir +9m

Last to join

NZ Herald 5 Oct, 07:26 UTC
Der Spiegel 5 Oct, 05:34 UTC
Der Standard 5 Oct, 04:03 UTC
Kommersant 4 Oct, 17:28 UTC
Berlingske 4 Oct, 16:40 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Flydubai co-pilot attacked captain with axe in alleged terrorist plot, 1 to 3 Oct 2026, 57 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 69 outlets in 43 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 69 outlets, 5 state-owned, 4 public-service, 60 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 4: Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa. Americas 3: Brazil, Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 14: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 17: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia. Middle East 4: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, 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, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article 15min, 3 Oct 2026, 08:36 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 08:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 07:51 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: 0.30, 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 co-pilot attacked captain with axe in alleged terrorist plot. Continued by What we know about the FlyDubai alleged hijacker; Flydubai co-pilot originally planned attack for July, investigators believe; นักบินผู้ช่วยที่ก่อเหตุพยายามจี้เครื่องบินฟลายดูไบ เผยวางแผนโจมตีก่อนได้ร่วมงานกับสายการบิน. 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 8 45.40 49 32 49 32 4.0

4 Oct 2026 42 9.66 66 40 16 12 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 08:40 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 07:51 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 69 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
3 Oct 2026	8	45.40	49	32	49	32	4.0
4 Oct 2026	42	9.66	66	40	16	12	4.1

Covered by 69 outlets

Africa 6 outlets

Americas 8 outlets

Asia-Pacific 23 outlets

Europe 25 outlets

Middle East 5 outlets

International 2 outlets