After sending the beep code 7700, which is the standard number for a general emergency around the world, the plane was tracked.

Captain Smit Machchhar, the flydubai pilot who stopped his co-pilot from trying to damage the Dubai-Tel Aviv plane, has been to Dubai from Saudi Arabia. The Omani co-pilot stabbed Machchhar when he tried to stop him from crashing the plane.

In case of an emergency, FlyDubai flight FZ1073 quickly dropped and then went to Prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz Airport in Tabuk. There were 174 people on board, and 27 of them were children.

After sending the beep code 7700, which is the standard number for a general emergency around the world, the plane was tracked. The phone number then changed to 7500, which means illegal interference with an aircraft, which could mean that the plane is being taken over. "The signal by itself doesn't prove what happened on board."Bloomberg says the Omani co-pilot was thinking about killing himself and became radicalized in "Kill Me, Kill Me."

Ben Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, told Fox News that Islamists had made the co-pilot more extreme. "We know that he was radicalized by Islamists," the man said, and he knew this from personal experience.

October 1, 2026, 21:30 (IST): Captain Smit Machchhar was brave and strong.

It was reported by the Ministry of External Affairs that Captain Smit Machchhar has been moved to Abu Dhabi to continue his healing and medical care. He had been receiving care in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Tuesday, October 1, 2026, at 21:02 (IST): Israel's foreign minister says the officer who tried to crash the flydubai plane is an Omani citizen.

The co-pilot is from Oman, according to Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar. He called it a "jihadist terror attack" meant to hurt ties between Israel and the UAE and the Abraham Accords.

In the evening of October 1, 2026, 20:59 (IST), the Indian minister to the UAE goes to see a hurt hero pilot.

While in the hospital, Deepak Mittal, the Indian ambassador to the UAE, checked on Captain Smit Machchhar and his family to make sure they were okay.

October 1, 2026, 8:40 p.m. (IST): Reason for Attack

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar of Israel said again that there is no proof yet that the attack was carried out by Iran or any other specific terror group. He also said that the main goal seems to be to hurt relations between Israel and the UAE.

The award for the Visisht Gujarat Garima was given on October 1, 2026, at 17:00 (IST).

Head of Government for Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel, said that Captain Smit Machchhar will get the "Visisht Gujarat Garima Award" from the government of the state for saving 174 lives.

October 1, 2026, 16:02 (IST): The UAE forms a group to look into the matter.

A group from the UAE Public Prosecution has been put together to look into what happened in the cockpit of flight FZ1073.

The driver was probably hit by a crash ax today, October 1, 2026, at 14:26 (IST).

The attacker is said to not have brought a weapon on board. He may have instead used the "crash ax" that was kept in the cockpit in case of an emergency, according to the findings.

Oct. 1, 2026, 12:37 IST: The plane went down all of a sudden.

Flight records from the time of the accident showed that the Boeing 737 MAX dropped from 34,000 feet to 17,000 feet in about 90 seconds. After getting back in charge, the plane was sent to Tabuk.

PM Modi calls the pilot at 11:51 a.m. (IST) on October 1, 2026

Captain Smit Machchhar was very brave and stopped what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "9/11-style tragedy."

At 9:02 a.m. (IST) on October 1, 2026, flydubai stopped going to Israel.

All flights to and from Israel have been stopped by flydubai while the government continues to look into what happened with flight FZ1073.