larry johnson seems a bit skeptical about the dubai plane hijacking; 

 

On the morning of September 30, flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, 27 of them children. About two and a half hours into the flight, the first officer attacked the captain, Smit Machchhar, an Indian national. The aircraft dropped roughly 17,000 feet in one to two minutes. The crew squawked a general emergency, then the hijack code, and Israeli fighter jets were scrambled. The plane diverted to Tabuk in northwest Saudi Arabia and landed safely. Everyone on board survived.

The official account came together over the following days. The UAE called it a terrorist attack and said the co-pilot struck the captain with the cockpit’s crash axe, an emergency tool kept on the flight deck. According to the Associated Press, sources identified him as Hamam al-Hammami, an Omani national born in the UAE who had traveled to Syria. Oman had reportedly barred him from flying over concerns that he had adopted extremist views and moved him to an administrative job at Oman Air. flydubai hired him anyway. A Gulf diplomat said the pre-hiring checks looked for criminal convictions, not signs of radicalization. Security services from four regional countries, assisted by the United States and other Western governments, are investigating. So far they say they have found no link to a militant group, which points to a man acting alone.

The rescue, as officially described, went like this. A spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu said the wounded captain opened the cockpit door himself. Two flydubai pilots traveling as passengers, one South African and one New Zealander, took over the controls, while crew and passengers restrained the attacker. One of them, an Israeli plumber named Yaniv Hayoun, said he put the co-pilot in a chokehold and dragged him out of the cockpit. Netanyahu embraced Hayoun when the passengers reached Tel Aviv. Other reports say the cabin crew used the emergency access code to get into the cockpit; that has not been confirmed............more........