Australian couple among passengers on diverted flydubai flight to Israel, embassy says
Two Australian citizens from Sydney were aboard a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv that was diverted after one pilot allegedly stabbed the other, according to Israel’s embassy in Australia. The embassy identified the passengers as a Jewish couple but provided no further details about their condition or the flight’s subsequent handling.
Two Australian citizens were among the passengers on a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that was diverted after one pilot allegedly stabbed the other, Israel’s embassy in Australia said.
The embassy confirmed that the passengers were a Jewish couple from Sydney. It did not provide further details about them.
The reported stabbing and diversion were described by the embassy as involving an attack by one pilot against the other. The supplied information does not identify the flight’s departure point, the location of the diversion, the pilots, or the couple’s condition.
The embassy’s confirmation was reported on Thursday, October 1, 2026. No additional next steps or official account of the incident were provided in the supplied source material.
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