Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

FlyDubai co-pilot attacks captain in alleged terrorist act

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 83
Regions: 5
Countries: 44
Languages: 21

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Dân Trí, 1 Oct, 14:14 UTC.
Second country: India, with The Indian Express.
Second region: Americas, with The Wall Street Journal.
Fastest hour: +14 outlets from 3 Oct, 06:10 UTC.
Last article: 83 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 44 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

18%19%48%

Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 4%
Americas 15 outlets · 5 countries · 18%
Asia-Pacific 16 outlets · 10 countries · 19%
Europe 40 outlets · 19 countries · 48%
Middle East 8 outlets · 6 countries · 10%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

Dân Trí 1 Oct, 14:14 UTC
The Indian Express +27h 8m
The Wall Street Journal +29h 38m
Ynet +29h 53m
Israel Hayom (he) +29h 57m

Last to join

Egypt Independent 3 Oct, 12:33 UTC
Global News 3 Oct, 12:28 UTC
Rai News 3 Oct, 12:20 UTC
New York Times 3 Oct, 12:04 UTC
Wirtualna Polska 3 Oct, 11:27 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 83 outlets in 44 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 83 outlets, 7 state-owned, 8 public-service, 68 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, United States. Asia-Pacific 10: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 19: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, 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: Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Dân Trí, 1 Oct 2026, 14:14 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 12:33 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 The flydubai attack was a failure before it was a plot - analysis; V Ománu mu zakázali létat, uspěl jinde. Co se ví o útočníkovi z kokpitu; Te radicaal om te vliegen, toch in de cockpit: dit weten we over copiloot die collega aanviel op vlucht naar Israël; Flydubai hired Omani pilot without background check despite extremist concerns - report; FlyDubai: Στο μικροσκόπιο τα κενά ασφαλείας – Τα ΗΑΕ είχαν στείλει στο Ισραήλ τη λίστα επιβατών και πληρώματος. 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 400 2.95 4 2 4 2 4.0

3 Oct 2026 20 27.09 83 44 76 42 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 15:50 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 12:33 UTC

Covered by 83 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	400	2.95	4	2	4	2	4.0
3 Oct 2026	20	27.09	83	44	76	42	4.0

Covered by 83 outlets

Africa 3 outlets

Americas 15 outlets

Asia-Pacific 16 outlets

Europe 40 outlets

Middle East 8 outlets

International 1 outlet