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Captain Smit was admitted in Tabuk and it is receiving treatment. Eventhough he is “reported to be in stable condition" some say his injuries are serious. Indian outlets (including India TV and NDTV) have added that he underwent surgery and that family members, including his parents and wife, have reached Tabuk. Pray for this hero. I hope he can fly again if he chooses to. Otherwise, I hope Israel can give him a monetary gift for health sequelae and trauma for saving their citizens.

Nothing in that cockpit story treats anyone as subhuman. Four passengers stopped a man with a knife from diving a jet into the ground. That is a fact, not a fable. Scrutinize the flight data, the captain, the emergency landing in Tabuk. The record is already public. And there is no such thing as a “Palestinian” ‼️It is a total invention, a political costume stitched in the 20th century onto Arab clans who already had homelands, language, and kin from Morocco to Iraq. They are Arabs. They imagine they will be handed a slice of the Jewish homeland. It will not happen. Sooner or later they will rejoin their brothers and sisters, the Arab tribes, in the Arab states. The land of Israel is not a costume party.

🟡 MISE À JOUR: 🇸🇦🇮🇱 L’Arabie saoudite a refusé la demande d’Israël d’autoriser des avions militaires C-130J à entrer sur son territoire pour récupérer les passagers après l’atterrissage d’urgence d’un appareil de Flydubai à Tabuk. Les deux pays n’entretiennent pas de relations diplomatiques. Les passagers ont finalement quitté l’Arabie saoudite à bord d’un autre avion civil de Flydubai, après que certains ont initialement refusé d’embarquer sur un second appareil de la compagnie. L’Arabie saoudite avait autorisé l’atterrissage d’urgence et pris en charge les pilotes blessés dans un hôpital local, mais a refusé l’entrée sur son territoire d’avions militaires israéliens. Les passagers sont arrivés à l’aéroport Ben Gourion plus de 10 heures après leur départ initial. Benjamin Netanyahu les a accueillis à l’aéroport.

The post is about flydubai flight FZ1073 (Dubai–Tel Aviv, Boeing 737 MAX 8 A6-FKF) on 30 September 2026, which diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia after a cockpit altercation. The “masks never dropped, so false flag” claim does not hold up.What is documented:The aircraft climbed to about 34,000 ft, then made a sharp descent (tracking data put one stretch at more than 14,000 ft in under a minute, with an instantaneous rate near 31,000 ft/min), leveled near 15,000 ft, and flew erratically before landing at Tabuk. It squawked 7700 (general emergency), then briefly 7500 (unlawful interference), then 7700 again. Flightradar24 recorded the path and the codes. Flydubai’s statement says an “altercation occurred in the flight deck,” the aircraft was secured by on-duty flydubai crew who were travelling on the flight, and it landed safely with all passengers and crew accounted for. Motives were still under investigation. Tabuk airport said both the captain and first officer were injured and taken to hospital. The captain has been identified as Indian national Smit Machchhar; Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, said the first officer was an Omani national who stabbed the captain and tried to crash the jet, and that passengers and crew overpowered him. Saudi authorities opened an investigation. Passenger video shows blood and people restrained in the aisle; some of those people are wearing oxygen masks supplied by crew, which is portable medical oxygen, not the overhead system. Passenger oxygen masks on a 737 do not drop because the airplane descends. They deploy automatically when cabin altitude exceeds roughly 14,000 ft (or if the crew selects them on). Cabin altitude is normally held around 6,000–8,000 ft at cruise even when the airplane is at 34,000 ft. A steep descent with the pressurization system intact leaves cabin altitude well below the mask threshold, so the masks stay stowed. Nothing in the airline, airport, or tracking accounts describes a depressurization. Footage of the cabin after landing with masks still up is what you would expect.The related “zero-g / people should have been floating” claim is also overstated. A high descent rate can produce brief negative G on the pushover, but it is not sustained free-fall. Aircraft still have wing lift and forward speed; passengers are not in a prolonged weightless arc the way a zero-G parabola is flown.False-flag framing has circulated from Iranian outlets (Fars and others alleging an Israeli setup to blame Iran) and from conspiracy accounts. No public evidence supports that. The flight path, emergency squawks, diversion, injured pilots, and passenger accounts of a cockpit fight are independently corroborated by tracking data, the airline, and the Saudi airport. Details of motive and exactly what happened in the cockpit are still part of the formal investigation, so some official claims can be revised, but “masks didn’t drop” is not evidence the event was staged.