What was the motive behind the Flydubai attack?

What the coverage shows

All three outlets center on Captain Smit Machchhar as the Indian pilot being hailed as a hero after a Flydubai cockpit attack, and all refer to the flight carrying around 170 people. The New York Times frames the piece as an identification explainer, while CNN explicitly says it is a “here’s what we know” roundup. The Independent alone foregrounds the headline about Modi and Trump, though its extract shifts to Israel’s account of the stabbing.

Written by Crossfiled from the 1 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.