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Middle East / United Arab Emirates · Conflict & Security

FlyDubai pilots transferred to UAE after flight incident

Rank
Ran
45h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
4

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Daily Sabah Turkey · English 1 Oct, 19:42 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Română (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Русский (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 45 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Vedomosti, 30 Sept, 14:19 UTC.
  2. Second country: Turkey, with Daily Sabah.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Daily Sabah.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 19:42 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 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

14%29%29%28%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 28%

First movers

  1. Vedomosti 30 Sept, 14:19 UTC
  2. Daily Sabah +29h 23m
  3. Times of India +29h 28m
  4. Asharq Al-Awsat +31h 38m
  5. VOV +32h 42m

Last to join

  1. Bloomberg 2 Oct, 09:17 UTC
  2. G4Media 2 Oct, 08:49 UTC
  3. VOV 1 Oct, 23:01 UTC
  4. Asharq Al-Awsat 1 Oct, 21:56 UTC
  5. Times of India 1 Oct, 19:47 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. 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 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 2: India, Vietnam. Europe 2: Romania, Russia. Middle East 2: Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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
English, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Vedomosti, 30 Sept 2026, 14:19 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 14:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 11:41 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 Israeli investigators to question flydubai co-pilot. 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
1 Oct 2026 199 6.20 5 5 4 4 4.0
2 Oct 2026 354 3.25 7 7 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 14:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 11:41 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 2 Oct, 11:41 UTC
    Another Carrier Headed to Mideast, FlyDubai Pilots Taken to UAE
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    • FlyDubai Pilots Moved to UAE as Investigators Seek More Clues 2 Oct, 09:17 UTC

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • VOV Vietnam 1 Oct, 23:01 UTC
    Cơ trưởng và cơ phó chuyến bay gặp sự cố của Flydubai được chuyển đến UAE
  • Times of India India 1 Oct, 19:47 UTC
    Saudi hands Omani co-pilot in Flydubai flight incident to UAE

Europe 2 outlets

  • G4Media Romania 2 Oct, 08:49 UTC
    Atacatorul de la bordul avionului Flydubai și pilotul rănit au fost transferați în Emiratele Arabe Unite
  • Vedomosti Russia 30 Sept, 14:19 UTC
    В Саудовской Аравии арестован пилот Flydubai после нападения с ножом на коллегу

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 21:56 UTC
    Saudi Arabia: Flydubai Captain, Co-Pilot Departed to UAE with Security Team
  • Daily Sabah Turkey 1 Oct, 19:42 UTC
    Suspect in flydubai attack handed over to UAE, Saudi authorities say
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