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COCKPIT WEAPON MYSTERY: Was An Emergency Axe Used To Attack The Flydubai Captain?

As the United Arab Emirates’ civil aviation authority continues investigating the attack aboard the Flydubai flight, a central question remains unanswered: What weapon was used against the captain? Some passengers described a knife, but another possibility has emerged in Israel — an emergency axe that may already have been inside the cockpit. There has been […]
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The investigation of the hijacking of Flydubai flight continues. The copilot would have used the emergency axe as a weapon. Read more Flydubai Flight, the emergency axe used as a weapon: the attempted hijacking on News.it.

AGI - It may seem like a paradox: passengers are prevented from carrying blades and potentially dangerous objects on board, but in the cockpit of many airliners there is an axe. The one that the flight copilot Flydubai used to try to put the pilot out of the game and take control of the plane, had not arrived on board secretly and, above all, is not a weapon. The "crash axe" is an emergency device provided by aviation regulations, designed mainl…

(Dan Tri Newspaper) - The incident involving the co-pilot of a Flydubai flight using a weapon to attack the captain and cause the plane to crash has raised questions about how such a dangerous object could be brought into the cockpit.

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Indian Express broke the news in Noida, India on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
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