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FlyDubai co-pilot planned to crash plane into Israel

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
12h ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
6

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The Wall Street Journal United States · English 7 Oct, 16:20 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Eesti (1) · Español (1) · Português (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 46 hours.

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

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Primicias, 6 Oct, 15:39 UTC.
  2. Second country: Portugal, with Observador.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Observador.
  4. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%14%43%14%

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

First movers

  1. Primicias 6 Oct, 15:39 UTC
  2. Observador +22h 25m
  3. The Wall Street Journal +24h 41m
  4. VOV +39h 38m
  5. The Jerusalem Post +41h 11m

Last to join

  1. Postimees 8 Oct, 13:58 UTC
  2. Kurier 8 Oct, 12:36 UTC
  3. The Jerusalem Post 8 Oct, 08:50 UTC
  4. VOV 8 Oct, 07:16 UTC
  5. The Wall Street Journal 7 Oct, 16:20 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Flydubai copilot attempted 9/11-style attack on Ben Gurion Airport, 4 to 6 Oct 2026, 71 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Ecuador, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Vietnam. Europe 3: Austria, Estonia, Portugal. Middle East 1: Israel. 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, Spanish, Estonian, Portuguese, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Primicias, 6 Oct 2026, 15:39 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 13:58 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
0.39, 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 copilot attempted 9/11-style attack on Ben Gurion Airport. 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
8 Oct 2026 292 3.43 7 7 4 4 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 15:50 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 13:58 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • The Wall Street Journal United States 7 Oct, 16:20 UTC
    FlyDubai Co-Pilot Almost Carried Out His Attack in July
  • Primicias Ecuador 6 Oct, 15:39 UTC
    Copiloto de FlyDubai tenía la intención de estrellar el avión en el aeropuerto de Israel, aseguran medios internacionales

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • VOV Vietnam 8 Oct, 07:16 UTC
    Cơ phó Flydubai từng lên kế hoạch lao máy bay xuống Israel từ tháng 7

Europe 3 outlets

  • Postimees Estonia 8 Oct, 13:58 UTC
    WSJ ⟩ FlyDubai kaaspiloot oleks oma rünnaku äärepealt juba juulis teoks teinud
  • Kurier Austria 8 Oct, 12:36 UTC
    Flydubai-Copilot wollte schon im Juli ein Flugzeug abstürzen lassen
  • Observador Portugal 7 Oct, 14:04 UTC
    Copiloto da Flydubai agiu sozinho, afirmam fontes israelitas

Middle East 1 outlet

  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 8 Oct, 08:50 UTC
    Flydubai co-pilot initially planned on hijacking plane in summer, investigation reveals - report
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