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Investigators Seek to Determine How a Weapon Entered FlyDubai Cockpit

New York Times1 October 2026, 15:58 UTCIsrael

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said one possibility was that the assailant used an emergency crash ax, typically stored in the cockpit.

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