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Flydubai co-pilot ‘assaulted’ captain before landing: Initial Saudi probe

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Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says pilots were returned to the UAE with an Emirati security team.

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Both outlets focus on the flight’s safe landing in Saudi Arabia, but they frame the event differently. Al Jazeera leads on an initial Saudi probe and says the co-pilot “assaulted” the captain, with a note that Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said the pilots were returned to the UAE with an Emirati security team. Reuters instead foregrounds passenger reaction and, in its extract, says Israeli officials described it as an attempt to crash the plane.

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