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Indian pilot praised for thwarting attack on Flydubai flight

Rank
Ran: 47h
Updated: 3d ago
Final
Outlets: 46
Regions: 5
Countries: 31
Languages: 13

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NDTV India · English 30 Sept, 19:14 UTC

The earliest of 28 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (6) · +11 languages

Read at NDTV

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: NDTV, 30 Sept, 19:14 UTC.
Second country: Qatar, with Al Jazeera.
Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 1 Oct, 03:23 UTC.
Last article: 46 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 31 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

13%30%33%

Africa 6 outlets · 5 countries · 13%
Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 11%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 7 countries · 30%
Europe 15 outlets · 11 countries · 33%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 9%
International 2 outlets · 4%

First movers

NDTV 30 Sept, 19:14 UTC
Times of India +28m
The Hindu +33m
Al Jazeera +35m
Hindustan Times +55m

Last to join

Vanguard 2 Oct, 18:32 UTC
CTV News 2 Oct, 15:10 UTC
BBC News 2 Oct, 07:20 UTC
iDNES 1 Oct, 15:49 UTC
NBC News 1 Oct, 13:53 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 46 outlets in 31 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 46 outlets, 4 state-owned, 4 public-service, 38 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 7: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 11: Austria, Czechia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: 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, English, Spanish, French, Lithuanian, Dutch, Portuguese, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article NDTV, 30 Sept 2026, 19:14 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 19:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 18:32 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 International. 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 Netanyahu invites Indian flydubai pilot to Israel; Ο Νετανιάχου προσκαλεί στο Ισραήλ τον Ινδό ήρωα πιλότο της Flydubai; Flydubai cockpit attack captain recounts incident to Netanyahu; 'Israelis, Emiratis, Indians vs Terror': Diplomacy In Israel's flydubai Post. 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

30 Sept 2026 100 10.80 11 8 11 8 4.0

1 Oct 2026 39 21.68 43 29 33 22 4.0

2 Oct 2026 24 29.35 46 31 6 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 19:30 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 18:32 UTC

Covered by 46 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
30 Sept 2026	100	10.80	11	8	11	8	4.0
1 Oct 2026	39	21.68	43	29	33	22	4.0
2 Oct 2026	24	29.35	46	31	6	5	4.0

Covered by 46 outlets

Africa 6 outlets

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 15 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets

International 2 outlets