Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

Flydubai copilot attempted 9/11-style attack on Ben Gurion Airport

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 15h ago
Final
Outlets: 71
Regions: 5
Countries: 44
Languages: 25

+33

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Jerusalem Post, 4 Oct, 14:10 UTC.
Second country: India, with NDTV.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with NDTV.
Fastest hour: +8 outlets from 5 Oct, 07:28 UTC.
Last article: 71 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

16%24%52%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 3%
Americas 11 outlets · 6 countries · 16%
Asia-Pacific 17 outlets · 11 countries · 24%
Europe 37 outlets · 22 countries · 52%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 4%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

The Jerusalem Post 4 Oct, 14:10 UTC
NDTV +2h 3m
G4Media +4h 36m
Kommersant +5h 10m
Wirtualna Polska +5h 22m

Last to join

Egypt Independent 6 Oct, 14:04 UTC
NBC News 6 Oct, 12:16 UTC
LRT 6 Oct, 07:45 UTC
NU.nl 6 Oct, 06:55 UTC
Helsingin Sanomat 6 Oct, 05:32 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 71 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 71 outlets, 3 state-owned, 9 public-service, 59 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Egypt, Ghana. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 11: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 22: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Israel, Saudi Arabia. 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: Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Jerusalem Post, 4 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 14:04 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: 0.35, 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: Continued by Terungkap Kopilot Flydubai Ingin Tiru 9/11 Tabrakkan Pesawat ke Israel; Copiloto de FlyDubai tenía la intención de estrellar el avión en el aeropuerto de Israel, aseguran medios internacionales. 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

4 Oct 2026 63 7.33 10 9 10 9 4.1

5 Oct 2026 27 16.61 54 38 48 34 4.1

6 Oct 2026 51 10.89 71 44 19 15 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 14:10 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 14:04 UTC

Covered by 71 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

Americas 11 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
4 Oct 2026	63	7.33	10	9	10	9	4.1
5 Oct 2026	27	16.61	54	38	48	34	4.1
6 Oct 2026	51	10.89	71	44	19	15	4.6

Covered by 71 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 11 outlets

Asia-Pacific 17 outlets

Europe 37 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets

International 1 outlet